Catalogue Number
NMLH.1993.372.61
Object Name
Print
Title
THE BRITISH BUTCHER SUPPLYING JOHN BULL WITH A SUBSTITUTE FOR BREAD ... BILLY THE BUTCHER'S ADVICE TO JOHN BULL
Place
England & UK
People
Pitt, William; John Bull: Tommy
Events
Reform
Date
1795
Creator(s)
Gillray, James
Description
Notes: this image is linked to the high price of corn after the Napoleonic war and is Anti-Pitt
The British Butcher, by James Gillray, 1795
Here the Prime Minister, William Pitt, hands out meat to a starving John Bull. Produced during wars with revolutionary France, the cartoonist Gillray suggests the government would only help the hungry if they joined the army.
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