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An excrescence, a fungus
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An excrescence, a fungus
Original Image Dimensions 18"x24"
Source The Duncan Wu Collection
Description In this caricature of December 1791, Gillray imagines William Pitt as a fungoid
growth on the British Crown—a reference to suspicions that, since George III’s lapse
into madness in 1788-9, Pitt was increasingly ambitious to take over monarchical
prerogatives.