An Alarming anniversary!!! or, King's Champion and 'Squire, Alamode Don Quixote and Sancho, taking a peep at the [Crown] and [Anchor]

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William Dent
active 1783-1793
An Alarming anniversary!!! or, King's Champion and 'Squire, Alamode Don Quixote and Sancho, taking a peep at the [Crown] and [Anchor]
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sheet: 250 x 352 mm
Peel 3404
Published: 
[London] : Published by W. Dent, July 14, 1791
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Bibliography: 
Robinson, Nicholas K. Edmund Burke : a life in caricature. New Haven : Yale University Press,1996, page 169 (reproduced).
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Title from item.
The words "crown" and "anchor" are represented in caption text by illustrations of a crown and anchor rather then the words.
Not in BM Satires.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.

Summary: 

Print shows a dining room in cross-section, where Fox, Pepper Arden(?), and Sheridan are sleeping in a stupor around a table, surrounded by empty wine bottles, as rats nibble a large joint of roast beef which sits at right; one of the rats remarks: "What a fuss has here been about a harmless dinner. I thought they'd be a set of Rakehelly Bloods that would bring an old house about our heads ... why we have been infinitly [sic] more disturbed by a ministerial party, with swallowing Church and State in thier loyal bumpers - come eat away - let's lose no time"; outside the building at left, Burke, clad in armor as Don Quixote, is perched on a ladder labeled "Flights of Fancy", surveying the scene through a window and exclaiming, "So, so, so, there they all are - why, sure Hell has broke loose - what a swarm of infernals - how ugly and tremendous they look - Confusion! how they maul the Constitution - and now by heaven tear John Bull piece meal ... "; behind him at far left stands Pitt dressed as Sancho Panza, bearing a shield which reads "Maintenance" and saying, "How! Lackaday! our Champiom is certainly toucht or mistaken - for as to John Bull I thought he had been pretty well cut up with Taxes ..."; Burke carries a spear labeled "Self interest" and has a copy of Reflections on the revolution in France on the top of his helmet. A picture labeled "French Revolution" on the wall above the sleeping figures shows the "Fable of the frogs revised" with the an army of frogs proclaiming "No log! No log! take it back Monsieur Jupiter."

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