Pitt stands in a street, attacked from all sides by maidservants. On the left a fat cook attacks him with a spit, another woman uses a mop.  On the right a young woman throws at him the contents of the pan of a close-stool, another holds up a broom. Behind Pitt is a house showing three first-floor windows, two of which are blocked up, the word 'Commutation' written across them. From the third a woman empties a chamberpot on Pitt's head. On the right is a shuttered shop, inscribed 'Retail'. On the door is written 'Removed to Dublin'. Beneath the design is engraved:
<p><br><br>'On Pretty Maids beware Will Pitt 
<br>How taxes thou dost lay 
<br>On Pretty Man 'twere far more fit 
<br>All Folks do sing or say.
<br><br>The Cooks will Roast thee all alive 
<br>The House Maids well will Scour thee 
<br>The Chamber Maids will Jointly strive 
<br>With Close Stool pan to Show'r thee.
<br><br>You stop'd the Light, that God did give 
<br>And Drench'd us with your Tea, 
<br>Such Commutation whilst we live 
<br>No more Ah! may we see.
<br><br>On Retail Shops be no Tax laid 
<br>They do the Poor Supply 
<br>Nor Give to Ireland our Trade, 
<br>This is the Nations Cry.'  23 May 1785
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<br>Etching
1785<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1785-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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