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Favorite guinea pigs going to market.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank

Published by: S W Fores
Title
Favorite guinea pigs going to market.
Description
English: George III dressed as a farmer, and Pitt as a drover, drive a herd of pigs towards a building inscribed 'Licence office' and 'Pigs Meat sold Here'. The King, on the extreme left, pushes forward a boar which snarls angrily; he wears a short smock with top-boots. The Queen, a skinny and ugly farmer's wife, stands facing him on the extreme right, taking snuff. Pitt, in violent action, brandishing a club, wears a badge on his arm numbered '45', he strides in profile to the right, saying to the Queen: "Why Don't you drive them in? you stand there taking your Snuff & mind nothing else." She answers: "Don't you hurry any Man's Cattle but your own: aye Poor things, indeed I do not like to drive any Poor Woman's Pigs so. I have had fourteen of my own & certainly must know the value of Pigs." The King says: "Don't be rash, consider the rugged road they have Traveled so long: I am astonished we have got them so far!!! I think they rather seem to grunt a little - if they once turn the Devil can't stop them." One pig has the head of a woman with a feather in her coiffure. Another, with an expression of surly resignation, wears a rectangular yoke inscribed 'No Grumbling' (see BMSat 8646, &c). 27 July 1795
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Charlotte, Queen of George III
Date 1795
date QS:P571,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 247 millimetres (cropped)
Width: 348 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1868,0808.6458
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

A satire on the hair-powder tax, see BMSat 8629, &c, as well as on the general burden of taxation and on the relations between the King and Pitt. For the guinea-pig see BMSat 8628.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6458
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