"Codrington, wearing the star of the Bath, sits on a gun-carriage on the deck of his ship, looking sternly up at an old scarred and pigtailed sailor who addresses him with an expression of consternation: Please your Honor's Glory there's something wrong in the wind, for they've clapt a Marine at the Helme of Old England, and He and the other lob lollies have made Sombody (God bless Him) to call our Glorious Victory an UNTOWARD EVENT And when they where told to belay their jawing tackel they shifted the wind and began to blow another way. Codrington answers Aye Aye Jack they or we must be fools. In his right hand is his sword, the point resting on the deck, the blade inscribed with Nelson's Trafalgar signal: England expects every Man to do his duty. He holds a document: Treaty of London. His back is to the sea where a rocky promontory (right) forms Wellington's profile, looking towards Codrington, a row of tiny gun-emplacements forming a grim smile (cf. BM Satires No. 15691); on the rock is a flag at half-mast, topped by a spurred Wellington boot, upside down."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Royal speech
Description:
Title from caption below image., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 221.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean Haymarket
Subject (Name):
Codrington, Edward, Sir, 1770-1851 and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Title from caption below image., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Text on either side of title: Blush not flower of modesty. Shakspear. 'Tis manners makes the gentleman and want of them the fellow. Pope., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"Three vignetted designs, one above the other. [1] 'Dosing'. A couple in a sparsely furnished room sleep back to back in upright chairs, the woman with a fixed frown, and folded arms, her feet on the fender (right); the man snoring with head thrown back, one leg on a chair. An infant sleeps in a cradle (left), napkins dry before the fire. Empty plates, &c. cover the table. A cat (right) and dog (left) sleep beside their respective patrons. [2] 'Draming'. In a ramshackle garret a cobbler and his wife tipsily drink gin; he attempts to fill a glass, she holds out hers. A screaming and neglected infant lies on her lap; a bare-footed child stands by a table. All are ragged and ill-shod. The tools of the man's trade are in the room, bare except for table, empty tankard, and a bed turned up against the wall and covered with patchwork. [3] 'Drowning'. A man struggles in the water, screaming and desperately raising arms and legs towards a watchman, who leans over a rail bordering a canal or riverside terrace of houses, shouting unhelpfully, springing his rattle, and holding up his lantern. Other watchmen run up."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below images., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Three designs on one plate, each individually titled., and For earlier state lacking imprint and with "dramming" spelled "draming," cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, no. 15653.
"George IV (left), not caricatured, and John Bull (right) face each other across an ale-house table on which are a jug and two tumblers. The King wears the caped coat of an amateur coach-driver with top-boots and a bulky scarf. His right hand rests on a cane, his left arm on the table; he looks towards J. B. through almost closed eyelids, saying, 'I believe Mr Bull you are no great admirer of His M*****y?' J. B. is a respectably-dressed countryman with gaiters above the knee. He takes a long pipe from his mouth to answer: 'You are quite mistaken Sir, I only wish I liked any one about or belonging to him half so well.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Questionable attribution to Robert Seymour from British Museum catalogue., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 5.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Taverns (Inns), and Staffs (Sticks)
"William IV, as Mars, in Roman armour, stands defiantly in a war-chariot drawn by three galloping horses, ridden by Discord, a virago with serpents for hair, who brandishes a handful of serpents. He holds a shield inscribed 'Signed Protocols', and a levelled spear; on his helmet is a dragon with gaping jaws. The chariot advances upon terrified Dutch soldiers (left), who flee; one drops his musket, but one on the extreme left (William I) stands firm beside the muzzle of a cannon and glares at the King with an obstinate scowl. They have high-crowned hats, with a ribbon inscribed 'Orange'. Facing the chariot-horses (left) are a menacing Russian bear and a Prussian Death's Head hussar with a levelled blunderbuss. Discord, looking sideways at the Prussian though turning away from him, says: 'A word in your Ear! there's nothing meant, its all show just to frighten these Dutchmen a little'. Under the chariot is a document inscribed 'Treatys'; the wheel is about to collide with a large stone inscribed 'Ireland', on which the features of O'Connell are faintly suggested. Behind the chariot are three Furies, with serpents for hair, and holding firebrands and bunches of serpents. Rushing forward, they urge the King on; they are (left to right) Grey, Durham, and Brougham. As a background to the chariot a swarm of countless frogs (French soldiers) is dimly suggested; they rush forward, with a tricolour flag. On the front of the chariot perches a Gallic cock. In the foreground (right) stands John Bull, stout and spectacled; he clutches his 'Reform Bill', and gapes up in horror, saying, 'Hey dey here's a bobbery, just as I was going to look over my Reform Bill quietly, what do they mean not to go to war sure now,!! after suffering Poland to be annihilated & Germany trampled on, Oh nonsense! Nonsense'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Publisher from publisher's statement "Published on the first of every month by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London" on first page of magazine; date of publication from series numbering "Vol. 3rd, Novr. 1st, 1832" on first page of magazine. See British Museum catalogue., Fourth page of a monthly magazine that consisted of four pages., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed resulting in loss of series title and numbering from top edge.
Publisher:
T. McLean
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, William I, King of the Netherlands, 1772-1843, O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847., Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Durham, John George Lambton, Earl of, 1792-1840, and Mars (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Armor, Chariots, Snakes, Shields, Spears, Firearms, Soldiers, Dutch, Prussian, National emblems, Bears, Frogs, and Roosters
Title from text above and below image., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Text below image following title: Be quiet & go a-angling-- Walton's Angler, part 1., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.