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[Samuel Whitbread] The Effect of Whitbreads Entire or Wha Wants a Guinea.
[after Charles Williams.]
Pub.d as the Act directs June 1805.
Coloured etching. Sheet 235 x 350mm (9¼ x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate. Time stained. Nicks and creases to edges.
Samuel Whitbread stands at his tavern door (indicated by the chequerboard sign), holding a foaming tankard. Melville sits on a stool vomiting coins into a bag marked 'Pro Bono Publico', aided by Fox and Sheridan. Pitt leans against a wall. Whitbread was a close friend and colleague of Fox, leading the campaign to have Viscount Melville impeached. After Fox's death in 1806 Whitbread took over the leadership of the Whigs. A reversed copy of a plate by Charles Williams.
See BM Satires 10400 for the Williams version.
[Ref: 58381] £230.00
Pub.d as the Act directs June 1805.
Coloured etching. Sheet 235 x 350mm (9¼ x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate. Time stained. Nicks and creases to edges.
Samuel Whitbread stands at his tavern door (indicated by the chequerboard sign), holding a foaming tankard. Melville sits on a stool vomiting coins into a bag marked 'Pro Bono Publico', aided by Fox and Sheridan. Pitt leans against a wall. Whitbread was a close friend and colleague of Fox, leading the campaign to have Viscount Melville impeached. After Fox's death in 1806 Whitbread took over the leadership of the Whigs. A reversed copy of a plate by Charles Williams.
See BM Satires 10400 for the Williams version.
[Ref: 58381] £230.00