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The New State Coach Setting out on the First Journey, May 1804

 Item — Box: LF104/7 Box 1
Reference code: LF104/7/72
The New State Coach Setting out on the First Journey, May 1804
The New State Coach Setting out on the First Journey, May 1804

Scope and Contents

Published: William Holland. Political satire: Pitt is the coachman driving the 'Union Fly' with Fox and another politician in harness over a road littered in boulders marked 'Subsidies', 'Income Tax', 'War of Extermination' etc.; John Bull and his wife ride on the roof, lamenting the bumps and not getting a place inside, it being full of the coahman's friends; another man falls by the wayside with bundles of 'Pickings' for himself and his family. Description from the British Museum.

Dates

  • Creation: May 1804

Conditions Governing Access

Physical item available by appointment in our Reading Room

Extent

1.0 Item(s)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository

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