Title from item.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Under a sinking sun in which is drawn a crown, with the words "Obscured, not lost", a masked figure with a crow-bar labelled "Begum Sophistry" and the Prince Regent with a broken axe labelled "Presumptive Rights" try to break down the door of the Treasury, while Edmund Burke picks the lock, labelled "G R", with keys labelled "Tropes"; behind them stands a man in black with a lantern labelled "Loyalty", a belt labelled "Truth" and a clapper labelled "Vox Populi"; from the window of the Treasury, Pitt attacks the house-breakers with a blunderbuss labelled "Constitution". Cf. British Museum online catalogue.