The march of intellect [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- The march of intellect [graphic]
- Creator
- Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker
- Published / Created
- [1829?]
- Publication Place
- London?
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
Satire against corruption with an image of a huge automaton representing the new London University (later University College, London) tramples over greedy clerics, doctors, lawyers and the crown. Five lines of text below image: "I saw a vision, a giant form appeard, it's eys where [sic] burning lights even of Gas, and on its learned head it bore A Crown of many towers, It's Body was an Engine yea of steam it's arms where [corn?] and the legs with which it stode like unto presses that men called printers use, from whence felt ever and anon small Books that fed the little people of the Earth, It rose and in it's hand it tool a Broom to sweep the rubish [sic] from the face of the land, the Special pleaders & thier [sic] wigs also & the Quack Doctors also and the ghosts & those tha twhear Horns & the Crowns of those kigns that set themselv's above the laws & the Delays in Chancery it utterly destroy'd, likewiase it sweept from the Clergy every Plurality, Nevertheless the Lawyers & the Parsons & divers others kick't up a great dust!!!"
- Description
-
Title from text above image.
Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour.
Date from online British Museum catalogue.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xx, p. 89.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 24.9 x 36 cm, on sheet 28.0 x 41 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 829.00.00.15+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1829
Etchings England London 1829 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name)
- University College, London.
- Subject (Topic)
-
Education, Higher
Avarice
Balloons (Aircraft)
Clergy
Demons
Justice
Lawyers
Machinery
Physicians
Rulers
Steam - Subjects
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University College, London
Education, Higher > Great Britain
Avarice
Balloons (Aircraft)
Clergy
Demons
Justice
Lawyers
Machinery
Physicians
Rulers
Steam
England > 1829
England > London > 1829
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9592494
- Object ID (OID)
- 10970437