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The bottom-less Pitt.   (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: Hannah Humphrey
Title
The bottom-less Pitt.
Description
English: Pitt stands in profile to the right, right hand extended, left hand resting on the table of the House of Commons, on which are books, &c. He says, "If there is a Fundamental deficiency why call for Papers?" The title and phrase (used by Pitt in debate) express the exaggerated attenuation of Pitt below the waist. He wears court-dress with a sword. The print is said to give a realistic impression of Pitt in debate. Cf. BMSat 8097. 16 March 1792
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Representation of: William Pitt the Younger
Date 1792
date QS:P571,+1792-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 273 millimetres
Width: 224 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1868,0808.6166
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

Grego, 'Gillray', p. 140. Wright and Evans, No. 74. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6166
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