A conservative angel [graphic]

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Title: A conservative angel [graphic]
Creator: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Contributor: Birchinall, Edward, active 1831-1838, publisher.
Published / Created: 1837.
Publication Place: Bury St. Edmunds
Publisher: Published by the Society of Surppression of Conservative Vice & Sold by E. Birchinall, Churchgate St., Bury St Edds., Suffolk, England, Great Britain, Europe
Abstract: Satire against Conservative policies: The 'Conservative Angel' top centre brings 'all Ale to Spirits', dispensing beer from a tankard marked 'vote for Lush'. A 'Nunn at Devotions' prays for the defeat of radicals and two figures on a wheel are 'just caught in the Conservative rat trap'. Other figures include Jim Crow, two fish (brother Gudgeon and friend Haddock) jumping for bait, and 'Don Diego de Carle-os Lie-ing in State'.
Description: Title from text centered at the top of the image.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; September 2014.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 32.1 x 51 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1837
Lithographs England Bury St. Edmunds 1837
Material: lithograph ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1837
England > Bury St. Edmunds > 1837

Access: Public
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