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A Spy!!! Or the Blessings of a Convention Bill, 18 November 1795

 Item — Box: LF104/3 Box 1
Reference code: LF104/3/64

Scope and Contents

Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. An elderly Justice of Peace (left), in profile to the left, approaches the side of a rustic latrine, a lean-to without a door; within, concealed from the man, an old woman in profile to the left is superintending a little girl who sits on the seat; in her hand is a torn paper: 'The Last Speech or Dying words of Liberty'. On the side of the shed has been chalked a childish caricature of Pitt with (or hanging from) a gallows. The magistrate, who wears old-fashioned dress, says, with wrinkled nose and extended hand: "I am sure I smell Treason and by Virtue of my office I have a right to peep every where, Mercy on us! - what a Seditious Grumbling." Description from the British Museum.

Dates

  • Creation: 18 November 1795

Conditions Governing Access

Available by appointment in our Reading Room

Extent

1 Item(s)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository

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