File:Cincinnatus in retirement.jpg

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English: Cincinnatus in Retirement. falsely supposed to represent Jesuit-Pad driven back to his native Potatoes. see Romish Common-Wealth.

SUMMARY: Cartoon showing Edmund Burke, as an Irish Jesuit, seated at a table eating potatoes from a pot labeled "Relick No. 1. used by St. Peter." Upon the appointment of Shelburne, following the death of Rockingham, Burke resigned from his position as Rockingham's secretary in protest.

Burke is portrayed as a Jesuit because he supported the 1778 Relief Act which relaxed restrictions on the rights of Catholics. The poverty of the Irish is parodied by the potatoes. Catholicism is parodied by the pictures on the wall, the mutilated crucifix, the pot labeled as a relic of St. Peter, and the demons dancing under the table.

MEDIUM: 1 print : etching, hand-colored.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: [London] : Pubd. by Eh. D'Achery, 1782 Augt. 23d.
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Source Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-05432 (digital file from original print), uncompressed archival TIFF version (39 MB), color level (pick white point), cropped and converted to JPEG (quality level 88) with the GIMP 2.4.5.
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James Gillray  (1756–1815)  wikidata:Q520806 s:en:Author:James Gillray q:en:James Gillray
 
James Gillray
Alternative names
James Gilray; Gillay; Gillray
Description British caricaturist and engraver
Date of birth/death 13 August 1756 Edit this at Wikidata 1 June 1815 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London
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creator QS:P170,Q520806
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current21:25, 12 July 2008Thumbnail for version as of 21:25, 12 July 20083,936 × 2,952 (3.91 MB)EubulidesHigher-resolution version from the Library of Congress
21:19, 28 July 2005Thumbnail for version as of 21:19, 28 July 20051,024 × 754 (255 KB)PetrusbarbygereTITLE: Cincinnatus in retirement falsely supposed to represent Jesuit-Pad driven back to his native Potatoes : see Romish Common-Wealth. SUMMARY: Cartoon showing Edmund Burke, as an Irish jesuit, seated at a table eating potatoes from a pot labeled "Re
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