No reflection ah" where's the ward that such a Key could fit. [graphic]

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Title: No reflection ah" where's the ward that such a Key could fit. [graphic]
Contributor: Grant, C. J. active 1830-1852, attributed name.
Published / Created: [approximately 1830]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: John Key, shown half length in profile to the right, holds a mirror out in front of him; the reflected face he sees is that of a donkey
Description: Title from text below image.
Possibly by Charles Jameson Grant, who produced other lithographs showing Key as a donkey.
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. 16314 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 11.
Perhaps one of several small images trimmed from a larger design.
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 15.4 x 15.8 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
Mirrors
Donkeys
Subjects: Key, John, 1794-1858 > Caricatures and cartoons
Mayors > England > London
Mirrors
Donkeys
England > 1830
England > London > 1830
Maidment, Brian > Donor