William Pitt the younger as an alchemist using a crown-shaped bellows to blow the flames of a furnace and heat a glass vessel in which the House of Commons is distilled; representing the dissolution of parliament by Pitt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815.
- Date:
- 21 May 1796
- Reference:
- 12184i
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[London] (New Bond Street) : H. Humphrey, 21 May 1796.
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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 36 x 26 cm
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The dissolution, or the alchymist producing an aetherial representation. Js. Gy. des et fect.
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VII, London 1942, no. 8805
The picture of health: images of medicine and pharmacy from the William H. Helfand Collection; commentaries by William H. Helfand; essays by Patricia Eckert Boyer, Judith Wechsler, and Maurice Rickards, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1991, p. 58
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Wellcome Collection 12184i
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