A politician sits and stares at his Gazette, a pursuit that takes up so much of his small brain capacity he fails to notice the candle is burning a hole in his hat brim. The headline and story have far more importance than anything going on in the real world. As the poem associated with it goes,
A politician should (as I have read)
Be furnish’d in the first place with a head…
(Just for the record, the picture is a 1775 engraving by a J.K Sherwin after a 1730s sketch by Hogarth.)
1 comment:
can you please tell me which poem it is that's associated with this print. I am researching The Politician.
Mrs Browne
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