Rêve de Pitt.
[by L.D. Lelue.] A Paris chez Martinet. rue de Coq, S. Honoré [n.d., 1805]. Aquatint with hand colour. Sheet 260 x 320mm (10¼ x 12½"). Trimmed into plate on three sides. William Pitt the Younger lies asleep in a bed on rockers, his arms outstretched towards a Punch and Judy booth in a cloud, cheering on the puppet of the Austrian emperor Francis, which clubs a prostrate Napoleon puppet which hangs over the side of the booth. Two men rock the bed. BM Satires 10520.
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