H Beard Print Collection
1805
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1805
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
H Beard Print Collection is a 1805 by Argus, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows a political joke turned into art. Argus made it in London in 1805. It’s a print, not a painting, so it prints the scene on paper. The joke is about politics. Pitt looks sick outside a pub. Sheridan and Fox collect coins that come out of another man who’s vomiting. Whitbread holds a tankard and watches. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
An etched and hand-colored print from 1805, titled *The Effect of Whitbread's Entire or Wha Want a Guinea*, depicts Samuel Whitbread standing outside his alehouse holding a tankard while William Pitt leans against the building in poor health. Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Charles James Fox gather guineas being expelled from a vomiting Viscount Melville. The scene was published in London by C. Knight.
Read the full account in the museum source.
This print-maker left a single May 1805 view titled “H Beard Print Collection” on record, a crisp cityscape that feels like a snapshot of the day it was drawn.
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