File:Master Billy's procession to Grocers Hall. (BM 1868,0808.5173).jpg
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[edit]Master Billy's procession to Grocers Hall. ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Print made by: Thomas Rowlandson
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Title |
Master Billy's procession to Grocers Hall. |
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Description |
English: A burlesque representation of Pitt's procession to the City on 28 Feb. to dine with the Grocers' Company and receive the freedom of the City. The procession is headed by a band of musicians (left), by the 'Gold Box' carried on a pole (voted to Feb. 1784 but not presented till 5 Feb. 1785), and by banners. Close to a banner inscribed 'No 45' capers Wilkes, scattering coins with both hands. On the three other banners are the words 'Pitt and Prerogative' [the actual banner was 'Pitt and the Constitution']; 'Youth a most enormous crime'; and emblems of the Grocers' Company, including two sugar-loaves.
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Depicted people | Associated with: William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1784 date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.5173 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) The procession is described at length in the newspapers, e.g. 'Morning Post', 1 and 2 March. It is called 'the grandest procession of the kind since the year 1761 when Mr Pitt's illustrious Father ... received the same marks of distinction from the Citizens of London'. See also BMSat 6471, 6538, 6807, 6813. On his return to Berkeley Square Pitt was attacked by a mob opposite Brooks's, see BMSat 6453, &c. For Pitt as Chatham's son cf. BMSat 5984. Reissued, 'Westminster Election', p. 83. Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 119-20 (reproduction). Reproduced, Grego, 'Hist. of Parliamentary Elections', 1892, p. 264. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5173 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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