A Coat of Arms for a Stamp on Income

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• ARTIST: George Cruikshank

• PUBLISHER: Published by S.W. Fores, Dec. 20, 1798, No. 50, Piccadilly.

• MEDIUM: Etching,

  DATE: 1798

• EDITION SIZE: Paper size 9 3/4 x 13 1/2" ( 24.8 x 34.3 cm)

• DESCRIPTION: <b>“Blessed is he that expecteth nothing. – for he shall not be disappointed.”</b><br><br> This biting political satire shows a lion with the head of William Pitt the Younger and a unicorn with the head of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, supporting an escutcheon that frames a vignette of a family’s dinner disrupted by a tax collector. He carries off nearly the entire pudding under a banner reading “Tax on Income”, leaving only a meager slice for the dismayed family. Pitt declares, “Give all thou cans’t / And let me dream the rest;” while Dundas adds, “Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long!” Surmounting the crest are a lean Fortunatus’s Purse and Wishing Cap resting on a cushion inscribed “Value Above what you are Worth Nothing.” Beneath, the scroll reads: “Blessed is he that expecteth nothing. – for he shall not be disappointed.” Something we all can resonate with.

• ADDITIONAL INFO: Backed on blue paper, likely was removed from a scrapbook.

• CONDITION: Good condition. Original hand coloring.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Caricatures and Satirical , English Satire & Caricatures