The cat's-paw! [graphic]

Description

Title: The cat's-paw! [graphic]
Contributor: Humphrey, Marianne, active 1831-1835, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1832]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by Marianne Humphreys, St. James's Stt
Abstract: A satire of William IV's involvement in the debate leading up to the Reform Act of 1832: A cat with the face of William IV is being persuaded to pull a hot chestnut from a blazing fire by a bewigged monkey (Lord Chancellor Henry Brougham). The fire is labelled with words such as 'rights', 'reform', and 'popularity'. A portrait of Whig Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, hangs above the fireplace
Description: Title etched below image.
Publication date inferred from the subject matter of the print. Publisher Marianne Humphrey, the widow of George Humphrey, operated her late husband's publishing business from 1831 to 1835; see British Museum online catalogue.
Five lines of verse below title: A cat and a monkey tired of play ...
For an 1821 print of similar composition, entitled "The man of the woods & the cat-o'-mountain" and satirizing the relationship between Queen Caroline and Sir Matthew Wood, see no. 14131 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; November 2022.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 33 x 23 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English