An Irish Union! No VI.If there be no great love in the beginning.- Yet Heaven may decrease it upon better acquatance.[vide Shakespeare]
[J. Cruikshank 30 Jan. 1799.]
[Published by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly Jan 30 1799 folios of caricatures Lent out for the Evening]
Proof. Etching. Sheet 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"). Trimmed within plate. Some staining and surface dirt.
A satire on the Union of England and Ireland. Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811) (left) reads from a folio History of Scotland, while William Pitt (1759-1806) (right) joins the reluctant hands of Paddy (left) and John Bull (right). Dundas, who wears a Scots cap, plaid, and tartan stockings, with a flask protruding from his coat pocket, stands in profile to the right, saying, "I'll read ye a little aboot the same Business in my ain country - you will find how many made the siller frae that time to this - depend upon it Paddy ye will be much happier - and mair independent than ever." Paddy, an Irish farmer, looks round at him with a suspicious scowl, saying, "Now is it Blareying you are at?" Pitt says with a primly complacent expression: "Depend upon it - what that Gentleman says is right - thus I join your hands in Friendship. & one Interest - and whom I put together - let no man put asunder". John Bull stares to the right, saying, "This may be Nation good Fun. - but dang my buttons, if I know what it is about! & Cousin Paddy dont seem quite clear in the Case neither." On the extreme left stands a man with blankets over his arm inscribed 'Tax on Income'. He says: "When you want the Wet Blankets - I have them ready". He is perhaps Joseph Smith, (1757-1822) private secretary to Pitt and crown agent.
BM Satires 9344.
[Ref: 58427] £70.00
[Published by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly Jan 30 1799 folios of caricatures Lent out for the Evening]
Proof. Etching. Sheet 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"). Trimmed within plate. Some staining and surface dirt.
A satire on the Union of England and Ireland. Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811) (left) reads from a folio History of Scotland, while William Pitt (1759-1806) (right) joins the reluctant hands of Paddy (left) and John Bull (right). Dundas, who wears a Scots cap, plaid, and tartan stockings, with a flask protruding from his coat pocket, stands in profile to the right, saying, "I'll read ye a little aboot the same Business in my ain country - you will find how many made the siller frae that time to this - depend upon it Paddy ye will be much happier - and mair independent than ever." Paddy, an Irish farmer, looks round at him with a suspicious scowl, saying, "Now is it Blareying you are at?" Pitt says with a primly complacent expression: "Depend upon it - what that Gentleman says is right - thus I join your hands in Friendship. & one Interest - and whom I put together - let no man put asunder". John Bull stares to the right, saying, "This may be Nation good Fun. - but dang my buttons, if I know what it is about! & Cousin Paddy dont seem quite clear in the Case neither." On the extreme left stands a man with blankets over his arm inscribed 'Tax on Income'. He says: "When you want the Wet Blankets - I have them ready". He is perhaps Joseph Smith, (1757-1822) private secretary to Pitt and crown agent.
BM Satires 9344.
[Ref: 58427] £70.00