Grand combination of native talent a trio as sung in the farce of the Hoax or No city feast / [graphic]

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Title: Grand combination of native talent a trio as sung in the farce of the Hoax or No city feast / [graphic]
Creator: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created: [approximately 1830]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: John Key and Claudius Stephen Hunter, the former with the head of a donkey and the latter with the head of a horse, stand on either side of an unidentified man at center, who stares straight at the viewer and looks perplexed. The animal-headed figures have their mouths open and the text they speak (four lines of verse each) is printed at top, separated by a vertical line. Above the central figure are also four lines of verse, enclosed within a speech bubble emanating from his mouth
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 and Hunter as a horse. These were published at the time of Key's initial election in 1830 as Lord Mayor of London; see, for example, nos. 16307, 16311, and 16314 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.
Mounted on brown paper backing.
Provenance: Brian Maidment; July 2024.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 27.4 x 22.9 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
Hunter, Claudius Stephen, 1775-1851
Subject (Topic): Mayors
Donkeys
Horses
Subjects: Key, John, 1794-1858 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hunter, Claudius Stephen, 1775-1851 > Caricatures and cartoons
Mayors > England > London
Donkeys
Horses
England > 1830
England > London > 1830
Maidment, Brian > Donor