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| Keywords: Cincinnatus in retirement.jpg 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 Library of Congress Prints Photographs Division LC-DIG-ppmsca-05432 digital file from original print http //memory loc gov/master/pnp/ppmsca/05400/05432u tif 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 1782-08-23 creator James Gillray No known restriction on publication An uncorrected version is at File Cincinnatus in retirement unrestored jpg; the uncompressed and full size uncorrected version is at File Cincinnatus in retirement unrestored tif LOC-image ppmsca 05432 PD-old-100 James Gillray 1782 cartoons Caricatures of the United Kingdom Edmund Burke Cincinnatus Fireplaces in art | ||||
