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Sic transit gloria mundi   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Sic transit gloria mundi
Description
English: Satire on William Pitt suggesting that his policies are a bubble that will burst. Pitt, in profile to right, sits astride a large bubble labelled "Pride, Conceit, Patriotism, Popularity" floating in the air above Palace Yard, Westminster, a smiling sun beaming above the Hall; he blows a bubble labelled, "Moderation" while other bubbles float beneath him, "Spanish War/Changing Sides [etched faintly]Honesty/North America/Self-Importance/Adulation/Pension [etched faintly] Vanity". A man standing on a gallows or inn sign hammers a crown turning it into a broad-brimmed hat (suggesting parliamentary rule rather than monarchy). Burst bubbles are labelled "Beer/Pension/Taxes/Blood & Treasure/Sincerity/Changing Sides"; small bubbles lettered "P/O/V/E/R/T/Y" float downwards towards an unsuspecting crowd of Pitt's admirers; plate 16 to 'The British Antidote, or, Scots Scourge' (British Library, Grenville 18,165). 1762
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Depicted people Representation of: William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham
Date circa 1762
date QS:P571,+1762-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 172 millimetres (cropped)
Width: 207 millimetres (cropped)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1868,0808.4234
Notes A rare example of a print produced by Bute's supporters against Pitt. A number of anti-Bute prints were produced by Paul Sandby whose name is parodied here.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4234
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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