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File:Bloody News- Bloody News- Or The Fatal Putney Duel (BM 1868,0808.6743).jpg
Print made by: Charles Williams

Published by: S W Fores
Title
Bloody news- bloody news- or the fatal Putney duel
Description
English: The stalwart Tierney (left) and the lathlike Pitt (right) face each other, each with two pistols. Tierney fires at Pitt with horizontal right arm; Pitt fires into the air. Between and behind them are Britannia and her lion; she throws up her arms in terror, screaming, "oh Murder my Darling's in Danger oh! oh!" The agitated lion rolls on his back, exclaiming, "oh dear! oh dear". Dundas, in Highland dress, is Pitt's second, he clasps a large decanter with a crown for a stopper, inscribed 'Treasury Cordial'; he turns to shout to Britannia: "Never fear your favorite Boy is in no Danger, if I was as well made for fighting I'd challenge them all". Pitt, wearing a bag-wig, stands stiffly in profile with his feet together, his thinness much exaggerated. Tierney says: "D------it one might as well shoot at a Rush light". He is standing under an empty gibbet inscribed 'late Abershaw'. His second stands in the middle distance, with clasped hands, looking at Pitt, and saying: "oh what a Pity 'tis it did not hit his waistcoat". The scene is a grassy heath with distant trees. In the background is one of the new telegraphs (see BMSat 9232): a shed behind which is a high frame with (movable) letters which record Bloody news shot. 26 May 1798
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Jerry Abershaw Date 1798
date QS:P571,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Height: 249 millimetres

Width: 392 millimetres
Collection
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6743
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

For the duel see Pellew, 'Life of Sidmouth', i. 203-6; 'Life of Wilberforce', ii. 280-6; Rose, 'Pitt and the Great War', pp. 334-6. Tierney challenged Pitt for saying that his obstruction to the Navy Bill could only be accounted for 'from a desire to obstruct the defence of the country' ('Parl. Hist.' xxxiii. 1461, 25 May). His second was George Walpole (see BMSat 9376), Pitt's was Dudley Ryder. They fought in the hollow near the windmill on Wimbledon Common, at twelve paces; they fired twice, Pitt firing into the air the second time. The duel was watched from a mound on Putney Heath where the body of Abershaw the highwayman was suspended. See BMSats 9219, 9222, 9223, 9225, 9227, 9231, 9233, 9537, 9538. Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6743 Permission
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