BM10564-a-great-storm-1806-0510
identifier:
BM10564-a-great-storm-1806-0510
title:
A Great Stream from a Petty-Fountain; or John Bull swamped in the flood of new-Taxes: Cormorants Fishing in the Stream
date:
May 7, 1806
description:
A rustic fountain gushes from the mouth of Lord Henry Petty, whose head and shoulders emerge from a stone wall or rock surrounded by trees. The water expands and falls by billowing stages into a sea, with the horizon labeled 'Unfathomable Sea of Taxation'. In this sea cormorants, with human heads and huge beaks and pelican-like pouches, are greedily fishing, while a rowing boat founders, throwing into the water John Bull, who drops an oar inscribed 'William Pitt'; only his head (submerged up to the mouth) and arms emerge. The water from Petty's mouth, the different levels of water in the fountain, and the sea are labeled with different taxes instituted by the government. The birds represent Grenville, Sidmouth, Sheridan, Fox, Moira, Windham, Grey, Ellenborough, Horne Tooke, Burdett, Buckingham, Derby, Lauderdale, and Adair. Source: George.
description:
British Museum #10564
format:
24 cm x35 cm
type:
Paper
type:
Etching, hand-colored
coverage:
London, England
relation:
LUCA2016.01 1806
subject:
Sir Robert Adair
subject:
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
subject:
George Nugent Temple Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham
subject:
Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet
subject:
Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby
subject:
Politics
subject:
Taxes
subject:
Satire
subject:
Great Britain
creator:
Gillray, James
relation:
Michalak Collection
source:
Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections
