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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D5459/1/62 |
| Former Reference | D5459/1/48 |
| Title | A Grand Battle Between the Irish Hen and the English Bantam |
| Date | [1799] |
| Description | Pitt, on the right in a white shirt and yellow breeches, boxes with Erin, personified as a young woman in a white dress with long red hair. Above Erin, St Patrick leans down from the clouds wearing his mitre and holding his crozier, in order to crown her with a wreath of laurels. Behind both Pitt and Erin stand bottle-holders; Pitt's is young and wears a green jacket and red breeches. Erin's bottle-holder wears yellow breeches and waistcoat and a blue jacket and has a drink-mottled complexion.
Behind Erin's bottle-holder a man dressed all in brown applauds, whilst behind Pitt's bottle-holder, a man dressed all in black, wearing a powdered wig and Scottish hat, holds up his hands in alarm. Available on CD 158. |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Artist | Woodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809) |
| Archive Creator | George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer |
| Further Information | The drawing was etched and published in the 'Hibernian Magazine' on 1 May 1799 (BM Sat 9372). BM Sat identifies the figure on the far left as the Irish politician Henry Grattan, and the figure on the far right as the minister Henry Dundas.
Pitt formed idea of Union during rebellion of 1798, as a way of preserving the empire. The plan was put before Parliament in January 1799, but met with opposition from the Irish and the Whigs led by Charles James Fox. |
| Physical Description | Coloured drawing. Size 331 x 246 mm. |
| Copies | A digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office. |
| Related Material | For drawings relating to Ireland see: D5459/1/93/11, D5459/1/93/13, D5459/1/93/32. See D5459/4/7 for a print by Rowlandson.
For more depictions of Pitt see D5459/1/61 etc. |
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