Cartoon, Integrity retiring from Office!
Cartoon, Integrity retiring from Office! by James Gillray. The outgoing Tory government ministers, led by William Pitt, leave through the Treasury arch. Following Pitt are Dundas, Grenville, Spencer and Loughborough. On the left are members of the Whig opposition, led by Sheridan and Tierney. Behind are Jekyll, Bedford, Nicholls, Tyrwhitt Jones, Norfolk and Burdett. Pitt had resigned because he had promised the Irish a measure of Catholic emancipation, but George III refused to support this
Picture No
10956065
Media ID
48223576
Size
6347px x 4504px
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Credit
© The Sharp Illustration Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Cartoon in The Works of James Gillray, the Caricaturist; with the History of His Life and Times, edited by Thomas Wright, 1873
Date
1801
