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Satirical Print 'Public Credit, Or, The State Idol' (1791) by William Dent, from the Original, Framed Print
Satirical Print 'Public Credit, Or, The State Idol' (1791) by William Dent, from the Original, Framed Print
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Public domain art from the Yale Center for British Art, digitally enhanced in high resolution. Hand-coloured etching.
Here in this eighteenth century print we see the gigantic figure of a man in back view with bared posterior standing astride facing a gateway. Between his legs the interior of a vaulted building recedes in perspective.
His arms are raised as if supporting the building, the hands being cut off by the upper margin. The inscription on the bag of his wig: 'For particulars enquire under the Rose' shows that he is George Rose, Senior Secretary to the UK Treasury.
Within the building seen through his legs are two men, minute figures in obsequious attitudes, probably pensioners: one with a wooden leg is Brook Watson; the roof is inscribed 'Treasury Army Navy &c.' Rose's posteriors emit a blast inscribed 'Surplus' which strikes Sheridan, throwing him to the ground. He lies on his back in the foreground with outstretched arms, saying, "This is surely a proof of a Foul Statement". Beside him is a paper inscribed '35 Resolutions'. Fox stands (to the right) looking down on Sheridan, saying, "This proves the Surplus not a fair one".
On the left is a flight of steps against the left leg of Rose, inscribed 'Sure Steps to Preferment'. The steps are: 'Flattery', 'Humility', 'Pliability', 'Servility', and 'Apostacy'; Burke has reached the top step (to represent Apostasy) and, hat in hand, obseqiously approaches Rose's back.
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