Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A caricature satirising the prohibition of working on Sunday as proposed in Sir Andrew Agnew's Sabbath Observance Bill: thugs terrorize honest Englishmen into observing the sabbath
Alternative Title:
Coersion for England
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Satire on attempts to enforce Observance of the Sabbath. John Bull sits miserably in a corner of a room. In the five lines etched at the top of image, we learn that he has no food or tobacco and is unable to go out for fear of the 'Arm'd Blue Devil' (...
Alternative Title:
Englishman's fireside!
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Agnew, Andrew, Sabbath legislation, John Bull (Symbolic character), Distress, Interiors, Police, and Starvation
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two groups of men engaged in a tug-of-war, pulling a rope in the opposite directions; in the top corners two men encouraging the team on their sides; in the middle, in a panel, seven persons hanged."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Hard pull for justice
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
