A spy!!! Or the blessing of a convention bill, Isaac Cruikshank, 1795

An elderly justice of peace (left), in profile to the left, approaches the side of a rustic latrine, a lean-to without a door; within, concealed from the man, an old woman in profile to the left is superintending a little girl who sits on the seat; in her hand is a torn paper: 'the last speech or dying words of liberty'. On the side of the shed has been chalked a childish caricature of pitt with (or hanging from) a gallows. The magistrate, who wears old-fashioned dress, says, with wrinkled nose and extended hand: "i am sure i smell treason and by virtue of my office i have a right to peep every where, mercy on us! - what a seditious grumbling. " see bmsat 8687, &c. 18 november 1795 hand-coloured etching. Date: 1795. Dimensions: Height: 332 mm (cropped); Width: 225 mm (cropped). Medium: paper. Depicted People: William Pitt the Younger. Collection: British Museum. A spy!!! Or the blessing of a convention bill (BM 1935,0522.8.188 1)