Political Ravishment, or The Old Lady of Threadneedle-Street in Danger!" (1797) originates a now famous female persona, the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, and utilizes a violent rape-implied scene outside the Bank of England to depict Prime Minister William Pitt’s suspension of specie. By conveying the subjugation of the Bank to Pitt’s political prerogatives in terms of sexual dominance, Gillray’s pictorial allusions force together counterintuitive subjects, national finance and women, such that the vulnerability of the Bank reflects feminine vulnerability, which was compounded in economic, political, and sexual dimensions in British society.