COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Political Cartoons
Record
Accession number:
7168-1-5
Call number:
DC/P769ra
Title:
The Colossus
Place:
[London]
Date:
[1767]
Image technique:
Etching
Image dimensions:
13.4 x 10.8 cm. (image)
Narrative description:
Increasing unpopularity of the ministry and of Pitt himself for accepting a peerage (Earl of Chatham). Pitt was perceived as allying himself with Bute, whose power is represented as based upon lust and fraud. Images include: Duke of Bedford; John Stuart, Earl of Bute, as Colossus; Fletcher Norton, Baron Grantley; Francis Seymour Conway, Earl of Hertford; Henry Fox, Lord Holland; Liberty with liberty cap and staff of maintenance; Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle; St. James Palace; John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, as "Jemmy Twitcher;" Dr. W. Scott (Anti-Sejanus); Earl Temple.
References:
BM 4178
Notes:
In The Political Register (Sept., 1767), no. V, opp. p. [273]. Quote from Shakespeare, "Why man he doth bestride this narrow world," engraved below image.
Subject:
Chatham administration (August 1766-December 1767).
Normalized date:
1767
The Colossus
