What a scandalous shame it is that they are allow'd to take people off in this here kind of way [graphic]

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Title: What a scandalous shame it is that they are allow'd to take people off in this here kind of way [graphic]
Alternative Title: What a scandalous shame it is that they are allowed to take people off in this here kind of way
Creator: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created: [approximately 1830]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: John Key, depicted with donkey ears, weeps while looking at a print of a donkey that is titled "DON KEY" at top, which he holds in his right hand; with his left hand he holds a handkerchief up to his face
Description: Title from text below image.
Signed with Charles Jameson Grant's initials in lower right.
Approximate year of publication inferred from other prints that depict Key as a donkey. These were published at the time of his initial election in 1830 as Lord Mayor of London; see, for example, no. 16322 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 11.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 29 x 20.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1830
Lithographs England London 1830
Material: lithograph ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
London.
Subject (Name): Key, John, 1794-1858
Subject (Topic): Mayors
Crying
Donkeys
Handkerchiefs
Subjects: Key, John, 1794-1858 > Caricatures and cartoons
Mayors > England > London
Crying
Donkeys
Handkerchiefs
England > 1830
England > London > 1830
Maidment, Brian > Donor