A labourer in the good cause [graphic]

Description

Title: A labourer in the good cause [graphic]
Creator: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Contributor: McLean, T. publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately March 1828]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Abstract: "Eldon stands with his shirt-sleeves rolled up, carrying a great stack of petitions under each arm. On his head is a porter's knot made of a pair of green bags (emblem of 'Old Bags', see British Museum Satires No. 12883); on this rests a third pile of bulky parchments. Round his right leg is an unfastened garter inscribed '. . . d Expects Every Man will do' [his duty]. He puffs; sweat streams down his forehead; he says: 'Hard work this--got plenty more to bring down yet--.' The petitions are inscribed 'Petition' [five times]; 'against Concession' [twice]; 'Petition against'; '30.000 Inhabitants'; 'Humbly Sheweth'; 'Petition against Concession--' [twice] '3.00 Inhabitants'; '4000 of the . . .'; 'signed by 130.000 Men Women & Children ; 60,000 Respectable Inhabitants'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella.
Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Matted to: 40 x 30.5 cm.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; June 2024.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English