"The King (left), plainly dressed, sits on a chair on a dais, a pillar and curtain indicating the throne. He angrily addresses a band of Ministers (and others) who are encircled by a ribbon inscribed The Bond of Union; the end of this is held by the Pope (right). Raising a document inscribed Coronation Oath he exclaims: Is that your only Bond of Union? Is that the flimsey Thread that Ties this hetrogenous [sic] Mass. What? have ye hid your base designs beneath the Cloak of Secrecy? Think ye to Catch your Sovereign off his guard? to tempt him to forget his Solemn Oath? and by one desperate Stroke, destroy the Church & Constitution too?!! begone, and instantly give place to honest Men. Lady Conyngham peeps from behind his chair, saying, I do exceedingly Fear & Tremble. The nine Ministers, closely tied together, advance menacingly, each raising a cross in the right hand. The Pope, triumphant and sinister, also holding a cross, says: Strike My Son's Now or never!! The four nearest the picture plane are (left to right) Canning, Brougham, Burdett, and Lansdowne with Scarlett just behind him; the other four are partly hidden and poorly characterized. Lansdowne is copied from satires of 1806-7, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer: he is dwarfish, and held up by the 'Bond', his legs dangling. Three say respectively: No bolting when you come to the Scratch; Nine to one will certainly be more--than a Match for him; Stick together. Above them flies a demon holding the firebrand of Discord, while Harmony, a winged child (right) holding a lyre, flies off discomfited."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Symptoms of dictating, cabaling, conspiring, overawing &c. &c.
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to: 32 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. May 16, 1827, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Scarlett, James, Sir, 1769-1844, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, and Leo XII, Pope, 1760-1829
Subject (Topic):
Thrones, Columns, Draperies, Ribbons, Crosses, and Demons
Title from text in center of image., Text below title: Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harm's & lengthens life. Shaksp., Title page to a series of prints. Some prints in the series published with series title: Scraps., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Four caricatures of men eating soup each type identified below the image: a rich man with rhinophyma eats "Turtle Soup"; a tall, thin soldier with a queue hairstyle eats "Soup Maigre"; a dustman eats "Pea Soup"; and a thin man in an upholstered armchair and wearing a cap and slippers eats "Mutton Broth."
Description:
Title from captions below image., Attribution to Henry Heath and questionable year of publication from description in British Museum catalogue of the first print in the series. See no. 15181 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., Publisher information from imprint "Pubd. by William Cole, 10, Newgate Street" on second print in the series. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 826.00.00.86+., Description based on an imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
William Cole
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking, Soups, Soldiers, Sick persons, and Garbage collecting
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Umbrellas -- Baskets.
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., With: I wish you may get it!, and Partial watermark. Offsetting of another impression on verso.
Title from captions below images., Printmaker from initials on first print in the series., Date of publication based on watermarks from other prints in the series., and Four designs on one plate, each individually captioned.
