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James Gillray, British 1756-1815- Bank Notes - Paper Money; - French Alarmists - o the Devil,...
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James Gillray,
British 1756-1815-
Bank Notes - Paper Money; - French Alarmists - o the Devil, the Devil! - ah! poor John Bull!!!;
etching on paper, signed 'Js Gy invt' (within the plate, lower edge), 15.8 x 21.8 cm.
Provenance:
Private Collection, UK.
Note:
The Library of Congress describes how this print 'shows William Pitt the Younger as a bank-clerk offering a handful of bank-notes to John Bull, who holds out his hand for the notes as Charles James Fox says to him "Dont take his damn'd Paper, John! insist upon having Gold, to make your Peace with the French, when they come" and Richard Brinsley Sheridan says "Dont take his Notes! nobody takes Notes now! - they'll not even take Mine!" John Bull answers: "I wool take it! - a' may as well let my Measter Billy hold the Gold to keep away you Frenchmen, as save it, to gee it you, when ye come over, with your domn'd invasion" as other Foxites raise their hands in warning and Charles Stanhope stands in profile. Alexander Wedderburn, Lloyd Kenyon, and William Grenville carry large sacks of notes on their heads in the distance and a bill headed: 'Order of Council to the Bank of England' is posted on the counter.'
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