File:Sir Jeffery Dunstan presenting an address from the corporation of Garratt. (BM 1868,0808.5805).jpg
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Sir Jeffery Dunstan presenting an address from the corporation of Garratt. ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Title |
Sir Jeffery Dunstan presenting an address from the corporation of Garratt. |
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Description |
English: Pitt, enthroned on a close-stool, receives a deputation from the Corporation of London travestied as ragamuffins. The place of the Lord Mayor (Gill) is taken by the knock-kneed Dunstan (see BMSat 5637, &c), who holds out a scroll inscribed 'Address from the very Ancient and respectable Corporation of Garratt. High and Mighty Sir.' He says: "Only two dissenting voices, your honor, Sir Solomon Raggedarse and Sir Gregory Donky." His gown is held up by a man dressed as a zany (? Dornford, cf. BMSat 7393), with a bottle labelled 'Gin' on his head, and by Wilkes. The former asks : "Did you ever see such grace and dignity in your life Mr Alderman!" Wilkes answers: "Grace! He shall be made master of the Ceremonies at St J-----s's!" Dornford's dress is inscribed 'Coniac', 'Shrub', 'Rum', 'Brandy', &c. On the extreme left is Watson pressing forward with eager deference; behind are undifferentiated aldermen. Pitt says to Dunstan (who holds the mace): "Thanks; Thanks; my respectable Friend, this is the most delicious cordial I have tasted yet." Behind him stands Bishop Pretyman holding the 'Address from Manchester'. [30 December 1788 (So dated by Grego)]
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Depicted people | Associated with: Josiah Dornford | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
circa 1788 date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.5805 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) See BMSat 7393. Dornford moved an address of thanks to Pitt in Common Council on 18 Dec, carried by 52 to 26. It was opposed by the Recorder (Adair) and five Aldermen (including Sawbridge, Newnham, Pickett, and Skinner). 'General Advertiser', 20 Dec. 1788. Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 232. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5805 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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