Six 'places': clockwise, 'places of honour', 'places of profit', 'a safe place', 'a snug place', 'a miserable cold place' and 'a warm place - hell'. Engraving, ca. 1780.

Date:
[1780?]
Reference:
585374i
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Description

'Places of honour' depicts soldiers without limbs beside a military procession with banners of 'Quebec' etc. The 'places of profit' is divided up into 4 separate scenes: 'a treasury board', 'a pub office', 'an admiralty board' and below, 'gentlemen of his majestys band of pensioners'. 'A safe place' depicts John Wilkes (?) with the cap of liberty inscribed 'habeus corpus' as he is attacked by four dogs and a lion who comes through the door of a prison cell inscribed 'magna charta'. 'A snug place' depicts a well-to-do couple making love behind a curtained bed. 'A miserable cold place' depicts a kitchen scene in which spits hang empty on the walls above the fire surround, rats attack a man holding a whip and a stick as a man in Scottish attire sips from a large spoon and three figures including a cleric stand under a 'cold & raw the North did blow' (reference to Lord North's political powers). 'A warm place - hell' depicts politicians, including Charles James Fox (with the head of a fox), being pushed into the gaping jaws of hell by the devil with a pronged fork

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1780?]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; platemark 24.9 x 38.7 cm

Lettering

The places (being a sequel to the posts) a political pasquinade - dedicated to Bamber Gascoign Esqr, a trading lord for the time being. Satire's a harmless quiet thing - 'Tis application makes the sting Each place is described in lettering below

References note

Not found in British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1978

Reference

Wellcome Collection 585374i

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