Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

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William Dent
active 1783-1793

No abatement

Published

[London] : Pubd by W.Dent, May 31st 1791.

etching
sheet: 244 x 344 mm
Peel 3397
Notes
Title from item.
Not in BM Satires.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Print shows Burke sporting a pair of demonic horns and carrying a large crucifix labeled "Charges", standing at the foot of a bed, at left, in which Warren Hastings lies, surrounded by demons with the features of Pitt, Fox, and two others, who urge upon him various tools for committing suicide, including a noose, gun, knife, and cup of poison; a demon (Philip Francis) at far left holds a pair of giant spectacles before Hasting's eyes, saying "If guilty of these represented crimes consequent reflection were worse then Death"; at right, a crowd of accusing ghosts appear in a mist, and on the wall a picture hangs with the title "Trial's end / Doomsday".

Associated names
Dent, William, active 1783-1793, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Bibliography

Robinson, Nicholas K. Edmund Burke : a life in caricature. New Haven : Yale University Press,1996, page 111 (reproduced).

Classification
Department
Century prints