Sujet

An Enquiry Concerning the Clock Tax, 1797. Creator: Charles Ansell.

Légende

An Enquiry Concerning the Clock Tax, 1797. British Prime Minister William Pitt writes with a 'tax pen'; on his list are 'Shoe Strings, Knee Strings, Hair Strings'. Visitor: 'Please your Honor - I am a Delegate from the worthy and respectable Society of Hosiers, to know whether your Honor means to extend the new Tax to Clocks upon Stockings'.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

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HRM23A11_318

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20,6Mo (1,1Mo) / 20,3cm x 25,4cm / 2403 x 3000 (300dpi)

Mots clés

England people hat arts politics country finance writing art pointing clothes British pen English color humour funny dress political thin prime minister location century gallery gesturing Britain clothing print tax concept APPAREL stocking hand gesture hand-tinted cartoon stockings play on words politician art gallery breeches taxation Colour HOSIERY quill pen pun politicians 18th century Eighteenth Century hand tinted tricorn tricorne britches William Pitt The Younger George Moutard Woodward hand coloured etching caricature satire William Pitt William Pitt the Younger Charles Ansell Art Institute of Chicago Ansell Charles art centre hand-coloured S.W. W Pitt Heritage Art SW Fores Fores SW Woodward George Moutard S. W. S.W. Fores Samuel William Samuel William Fores Samuel W. Samuel W. Fores Art Institute Chicago George Murgatroyd Woodward Woodward George Murgatroyd Woodward G. M. G. M. Woodward Prints and Drawings George Woodward S W Fores S W clothing & dress fashion & clothing Etching in black with hand-colored additions on cream wove paper Woodward George Pitt the Younger