'The pigs possessed: - or - the Broad Bottom'd litter running headlong into ye sea of perdition' Portrait Print
'The pigs possessed: - or - the Broad Bottom'd litter running headlong into ye sea of perdition' NPG D12888
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
The 'Ministry of All the Talents' was a coalition government formed under William Wyndham Grenville after the Tory William Pitt's death in January 1806. The members of the 'Ministry of All the Talents' were known as 'Broadbottoms' because of their wide political spectrum and their large posteriors. They are imagined here transformed into suicidal swine throwing themselves into the sea. George III is returned to his role as the long-suffering 'Farmer George', herding his unruly government off the edge of the cliff. A tardy Sheridan,... more
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