An Excrescence; A Fungus; Alias - A Toadstool upon a Dung-hill
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An Excrescence; A Fungus; Alias - A Toadstool upon a Dung-hill[1] is a caricature by James Gillray.
- "Political caricature depicting William Pitt as a political mushroom (toadstool) engrafting itself upon the Crown (dunghill). [...] The possible inspiration for this particular caricature was a comment made (perhaps in the House of Commons) likening Pitt to a type of political mushroom feeding on the compost of royal patronage. Gillray shows the Prime Minister with a swollen, blotchy face, an allusion to his well know dependence on alcohol."[2]
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