The British butcher, supplying John Bull with a substitute for bread, vide message to Lord Mayor

William Pitt as a butcher, stands arrogantly behind his block, holding up a leg of mutton to a hungry, lean, and dismayed John Bull, who stands with bent knees (left), his right hand groping in his breeches pocket. Pitt says: "A Crown, - take it, or leave't". His cleaver lies on his blood-stained block, on the front of which are two placards side by…

Size 16cm x 23cm

Medium Hand-coloured print on paper

Publication The Caricatures of James Gillray

Published by John Miller 1818