Midas Transmuting all into Gold Paper, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1797 by James Gillray
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- Midas Transmuting all into Gold Paper, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1797
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- James Gillray
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- © Bridgeman Art Library / © Courtesy of the Warden and Scholars of New College, Oxford
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reference to the issue of paper money after a run on the Bank of England on 26th February 1797; William Pitt (1759-1806) depicted as a giant standing over the bank; Opposition heads in the rushes; storm cloud coming from France;
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