An Enquiry Concerning the Clock Tax, 1797. Creator: Charles Ansell.

An Enquiry Concerning the Clock Tax, 1797. Creator: Charles Ansell.

2-942-039 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

An Enquiry Concerning the Clock Tax, 1797. British Prime Minister William Pitt writes with a 'tax pen'; on his list are 'Shoe Strings, Knee Strings, Hair Strings'. Visitor: 'Please your Honor - I am a Delegate from the worthy and respectable Society of Hosiers, to know whether your Honor means to extend the new Tax to Clocks upon Stockings'.


Image Details


People Information

Creator
  1. Charles Ansell, attributed to: British, English: Artist, painter, illustrator, printmaker
After
  1. George Moutard Woodward: British; English: Artist, caricaturist, author
Subject
  1. William Pitt: British: Prime Minister, politician
People Related
  1. S W Fores: British, English: Artist, printmaker, publisher, etcher, owner

Medium
  1. Etching
  2. Etching in black, with hand-colored additions, on cream wove paper

Picture Type
  1. Caricature
  2. Prints and drawings
  3. Satire

Category Hierarchy

Lifestyle & Leisure Fashion & Dress

Artistic Representations Satires

Artistic Representations Caricatures

Trade & Industry Finance

People Other

History & Politics Politics Politicians


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 2403x3000
File Size : 21,121kb


Aliases

  1. 89841
  1. 1928.1261
  1. 1000044396
  1. 2-942-039
  1. 2942039
  1. 89841

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