By Charles Williams. Pitt, in the guise of a statue coloured yellow, stands on a pedestal formed of blocks of stone. Its base is 'Increase of National debt 250-000-000'; the corresponding upper slab (chipped) on which rests , the base of the statue, inscribed 'Sic itur ad astra, is Income Tax'. The smaller flocks are: 'Hair Powder', 'Horse Duty', 'Tax on Beer', 'Armorial Bearings', 'Tax on Malt', 'Additional House Tax', 'Additional Window Tax', 'Hat Duty', 'Tax on Shopmen', 'Shop Tax' [repealed in 1789], 'Servant Tax', 'War of Examination'. Pitt, very elongated, looks complacently to the left. In his right hand is a rolled document: 'Budget'; in the left a rudder decorated with a dolphin. Two pairs of spectators stand below looking at the statue. On the left, Fox, grossly corpulent, and Sheridan, with his right hand on Fox's shoulder looking slyly at his friend. Both point. Fox says: "That Brass countenance of his never shone with more conspicuous confidence, one would think he was in the very an of proposing a new Tax." Sheridan says: "There's a Monument of Integrity, his Works not only follow, but support him, Nebuchadnazzars Brazen Image was nothing to it, Nor his people half so Idolatrous." The opposite pair are John Bull, a rustic, almost more obese than Fox, and Hibernia, his wife, florid and sensual. He says: "Odzooks there's the dear Image - , the promoter of our Union, and I suppose that there Writing there, is the account of all his wonderfull Works". She says: "Why Mr Bull I thought he was the greatest Man we ever had, but its all Bodder, why by St Patrick, Mr OBrien (the Irish Giant) [i.e. Patrick Cotter] would make Six of him." Description from the British Museum.