[William Pitt the elder] Guilmus Pitt. The Man Who Having Saved the Parent Pleaded With Success For Her Children.
Hall sculp. [n.d., c.1766.] Etching with engraving. 185 x 130mm (7¼ x 5"). Trimmed to plate on right. The two sides of a bronze medal by Thomas Pingo, celebrating the 1766 repeal of the Stamp Act of 1765, after Pitt argued that it was unconstitutional to impose taxes upon the colonies and the Act would cause the separation of the American Colonies from the mother country. He became Earl of Chatham later that year.
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