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Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank

Published by: S W Fores
Title
Oh! dear what can the matter be
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English: The Duke of Richmond stands between two posts, supporting himself by a hand on each. He looks down and to the right, with a dismayed expression, vomiting a cascade of munitions of war: weapons, cannon, drums, &c, a fortress, a baggage-wagon, a windmill. One post (right) is inscribed '4 Per Chaldron 20,000 pr Anm', the other, 'Heriditary Income D'Aubigne'. A scroll floats towards him from the upper left corner of the design inscribed: 'Thou hast done those things thou ought not to have done And hast left undone those things thou oughfi [sic] to have done.' 21 September 1793.
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Representation of: Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Date 1793
date QS:P571,+1793-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 350 millimetres
Width: 248 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.664
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

Richmond (duc d'Aubigne in virtue of his ancestress, Louise de Quérouaille) inherited a grant (by Charles II) of is. a chaldron on all coal entering the Port of London, the 'Richmond shilling' denounced by Paine: this tax, 'so iniquitously and wantonly applied to the support of the Duke of Richmond . . .'. 'Rights of Man', ii, ch. v. Cf. BMSats 7389, 7393. As Master of the Ordnance he was very unpopular (cf. BMSat 6921, &c). The defeat of the Hanoverians at Hondschoote, 8 Sept., and the consequent abandonment by the Duke of York of the siege of Dunkirk, mark the turn of the tide against the Allies, a result of Carnot's administration, cf. BMSat 8345. See BMSats 8425, &c, 9046, 9157. The abandonment of Dunkirk caused an outcry against naval and transport authorities; the Duke attacked Richmond, for delay in providing heavy artillery, and Chatham. Sir G. Elliot, 'Life and Letters', ii. 160 (11 Sept.); 'Glenbervie Journals', ed. Sichel, 1910, p. 45 (9 Nov.). Richmond's resignation (1795) is anticipated (cf. BMSat 8704).
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