Petition mongers in full cry to St. Stephens!! beware of wolves in sheeps clothing. [graphic]

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Title
Petition mongers in full cry to St. Stephens!! beware of wolves in sheeps clothing. [graphic]
Creator
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created
[26 November 1795]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Published Novr. 26, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Abstract

"Sheridan and Fox walk (left to right) one behind the other, bending under the weight of huge bundles of petitions which they carry on their heads. Both wear bonnets-rouges; Fox is dressed in a tattered shirt and breeches. Smaller petitions project from their pockets. Sheridan's petitions are: 'House of Correction', 'Petition in Favor of Sedition', 'for Sedition', 'Girls Petition', 'Boys Petition', 'Washerwomens Pn', 'Pickpocket from Newgate', 'Drunkards', 'Marshalsea', 'Burow Clink' [the Clink prison in the Borough of Southwark], 'Bridwell'. He says: "These will serve for a few hours Jaw, & if we can but procrastinate the Bill a few days we may be able to Effect something in that Time." Fox's petitions: 'St Lukes from Thelwal with an Essay on Deism' [cf. BMSat 9286], 'Gamblers Peti[ti]on Dustmens', 'an adress from that oppresed body of Men on Board the Hulks [convicts]', 'Bankrupts P [above Banker's, scored through]', 'Nightmen', 'Scavengers', 'Card & Dice Makers', 'an adress', 'Fish Women'."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
Printmaker identified in British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in partial loss of imprint.
Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for evening.
Temporary local subject terms: Bills: Treasonable Practices bill -- Seditious Meetings bill.
Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Mounted to 31 x 39 cm.
Provenance
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent
1 print : sheet 26 x 35 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
795.11.26.01+ Impression 1

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Caricatures and cartoons
Early works to 1800
Satires (Visual works) England 1795
Etchings England London 1795
Watermarks (Paper) E & P.
Material
etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Geographic)
Great Britain
Subject (Name)
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic)
Sedition
Subjects
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sedition > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
England > 1795
England > London > 1795
E & P.

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8050159
Object ID (OID)
11105907

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