William Pitt the younger as a very thin caricatured bank clerk stands behind a counter offering a handful of bank-notes to John Bull, while Charles James Fox and Sheridan attempt to stop Bull accepting the money. Line block after J. Gillray, 1873.

  • Gillray, James, 1756-1815.
Date:
1873
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603157i
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Satire on the drain of money in the Bank of England which led to an order for the Bank to refuse cash payments resulting in no legal-tender paper money. Fox described the situation as a state of 'national bankruptcy'

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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1873.

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1 print : process, line block ; image 15.6 x 22.2 cm

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Bank notes - paper money - French alarmists,- O, the devil, the devil!-ah! poor John Bull!!!

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. vii, London 1942, no. 8990A

Reference

Wellcome Collection 603157i

Reproduction note

After an etching by James Gillray. Published 1 March 1793 by H. Humphrey, Old Bond Street

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