William Pitt
(1759-1806), Prime MinisterRegency Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter associated with 174 portraits
Pitt dominated Parliament as Tory Prime Minister from 1783 to 1801 and 1804 to 1806. He restructured Britain's finances after the American Revolution and reformed the government of India in 1784. Pitt regarded the French Revolution as a foreign issue but began to worry that British radicals were in touch with French revolutionaries. After France declared war in 1793, he clamped down on domestic dissent with the first series of 'gagging acts'. In 1800 he arranged a Parliamentary union with Ireland but resigned in 1801 over George III's opposition to Catholics sitting in Parliament. Pitt's rivalry with Fox, his political and temperamental opposite, dominated Parliament for over twenty years.
'The Daily-Advertiser' (William Pitt; Charles James Fox)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 23 January 1797
NPG D12594
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 13 February 1797
NPG D12597
'Bank-notes, - paper-money, - French-alarmists, - o, the devil, the devil! - ah! poor John Bull!!!'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 1 March 1797
NPG D12601
'The table's turn'd' (Charles James Fox; William Pitt)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 4 March 1797
NPG D12602
'Midas, transmuting all, into paper'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 9 March 1797
NPG D12603
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, engraving and aquatint, published 18 May 1797
NPG D12613
'Parliamentary-reform, - or - opposition-rats, leaving the house they had undermined'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 28 May 1797
NPG D12614
William Pitt ('Political-ravishment, or the old lady of Treadneedle-Street in danger!')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 22 May 1797
NPG D13029
'End of the Irish invasion; - or - the destruction of the French armada'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
etching and aquatint, published 20 January 1797
NPG D15304
by Isaac Cruikshank, published by Samuel William Fores
hand-coloured etching, published 20 May 1797
NPG D15555
The Arms and Supporters of a Debateing Society (Charles James Fox; William Pitt)
by and published by Robert Dighton
hand-coloured etching, published 25 January 1798
NPG D47139
'A ex minister training a terrier at Bowood'
by James Sayers
etching, March 1798
NPG D12262
'Search-night; - or - state-watchmen mistaking honest-men for conspirators'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 20 March 1798
NPG D12633
'Meeting of unfortunate citoyens'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 12 May 1798
NPG D12648
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 30 May 1798
NPG D12651
'Pigs meat; - or - the swine flogg'd out of the farm yard'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 22 June 1798
NPG D12654
by James Gillray, published by John Wright
hand-coloured etching and engraving, published 1 December 1798
NPG D12669
'Consequences of a successful French invasion, No 1, plate 1st'
by and published by James Gillray
hand-coloured etching, published 1 March 1798
NPG D13086
'The storm rising; - or - the Republican flotilla in danger'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 1 February 1798
NPG D13091
by James Gillray, published by John Wright
etching and engraving, published 1 December 1798
NPG D13687
Related People
- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (father)
- John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham (brother)
- James Charles Pitt (brother)
- Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (niece)
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