The monstrous hydra, or virtue invulnerable, British Cartoon Print
Zusammenfassung
Print shows William Pitt holding a paper labeled "Regency limitations & restrictions" encircled by a hydra labeled "Private Views" with eleven heads, among them Charles James Fox, Edmund Burke, and one blindfolded which may be George III, and, at the top, in place of the twelfth head, are the feathers of the Prince of Wales labeled "Ich Dien." The hydra rises from flames labeled "Pandæmonium" in the lower left corner. On the right is the headless upper torso of Lord North labeled "American War" which is spewing smoke from the neck, identified as the "Source of all Evil"; the smoke is labeled "N--H's Debts and Deficencies" and it is blocking out the beneficial rays of the sun labeled "Public Good."
Paper watermarked: J Whatman.
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 896.
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