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Summary

Shah Allum in distress (

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Title

Shah Allum in distress

Description

English: A design in two compartments illustrating an article in Biblical phraseology, 'The First Chapter of the Book of Kings' and 'The Lamentations'. In the upper part is depicted a meeting of the General Court of the East India Company; the directors seated at a table on which are writing materials, a book, and a hammer. In the foreground a large man, Governor Johnstone, is holding up by the seat of his breeches 'Shah Allum' or Sir George Colebrook for the derision of the other directors. In the background, behind a barrier, a crowd of men, apparently the proprietors of East India Stock, watch the proceedings with amusement.

A ship with broken masts in heavy seas is driving on to rocks (right), on which is a flag-staff with a flag inscribed 'Treasury Cape'. On the right margin is inscribed "L. 40,00,00". This symbolizes the ruinous state of the Company's finances, on the verge of bankruptcy and burdened with an annual tribute of £400,000 to the Treasury. See 'Ann. Reg.' 1773, pp. 62 ff., and 'Camb. Hist. of the British Empire', iv, pp. 181 ff. See also BMSat 5101, &c. January 1773

Etching

Depicted people

Representation of: Sir George Colebrooke

Date

1773

Medium

paper

Dimensions

Height: 181 millimetres

Width: 110 millimetres

Collection

British Museum

	Native name	British Museum
	Location	London
	Coordinates	51° 31′ 10″ N, 0° 07′ 37″ W
	Established	1753
	Website	www.britishmuseum.org
	Authority file	: Q6373 VIAF: 134857252 ISNI: 0000000123428817 ULAN: 500125180 LCCN: n79107735 NLA: 35022119 WorldCat

Current location

Prints and Drawings

Accession number

1868,0808.10034

Notes

A duplicate of 1855,0609.1928

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) The first (January) number of the 'Westminster Magazine' appeared in January, contrary to the custom. In 1774 each number appeared at the beginning of the following month. >From the 'Westminster Magazine', i. 41. This illustrates a meeting of the General Court of the Company on 1 Dec. 1772, [Four Courts a year were held, the qualification for a vote being raised by North's Regulating Act of 1773 from £500 to £1,000 Stock.] at which Governor Johnstone threw the blame of all the Company's miscarriages on their Directors who were "buoying up the spirits of the Proprietary with a pompous account of their affairs. . . ." Colebrook, a banker and M.P. for Arundel, was a leading director of the East India Company, and had been chairman in 1769 and 1771. At this time his affairs were in great disorder as a result of over-speculation: he had contracted for "all the alum in Bohemia, all the chip hats in Italy, . . ." 'Letters of the Earl of Malmesbury', i. 271, Ap. 6, 1773. See also Hume, 'Letters', 1932, ii. 263. The crisis was that in which Fordyce was ruined, see BMSat 4961, 5016. The name Shah Allum is here given because he had become rich by monopolizing alum. 'Westminster Magazine', i. 40.

Over the lower design is inscribed "The India-man wrecked. L 12" (probably a reference to 'The Lamentations' on the opposite page).

Source/Photographer

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-10034

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