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Jove in his chair.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Elizabeth Darchery
Title
Jove in his chair.
Description
English: Shelburne, in a triumphal car, drawn (left to right) by two decrepit asses, with the heads of Dunning (Baron Ashburton) and General Conway. He holds reins in his left hand, which his two steeds hold in their mouths; in his right he flourishes a whip. He is saying, with a subtly complacent smile,



"In my presence, scoundrel Peasants
Shall not call their Souls their own!"

Under his feet is Britannia's shield; a fleur-de-lys as a crest decorates the side of the car. His head is irradiated. At the back of the car, as a footman, stands William Pitt, very young, and holding up in his left hand a 'horn book' with the alphabet to indicate his extreme youth. Under his right arm are two rolled documents inscribed "[Chan]cellor of Excheqr" and "Ways & Means". Pitt was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the new Ministry, see BMSat 6023, 6044. In front of the asses, as a running footman, runs Col. Barré with a melancholy expression. In his right hand is a money-bag inscribed "3000£ pr Annm", indicating the pension which caused so great a scandal, see BMSat 6028. The wings of Mercury are attached to his hat and shoes; in his right hand he holds the staff carried by running footmen, with the egg-shaped top which held the egg for the runner's sustenance. 11 September 1782


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Depicted people Representation of: Isaac Barré
Date 1782
date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 250 millimetres
Width: 350 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4884
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

One of several satires on Shelburne as a triumphant conspirator, see BMSat 6018, &c; he is accompanied by his chief supporters against the attacks of the Portland or Foxite whigs. See Fitzmaurice, 'Shelburne', 1912, ii, pp. 155 ff. Grego, 'Gillray', p. 42.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4884
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