"John Bull sits in a double pair of stocks, his ankles heavily shackled. His wrists are linked by a huge padlock inscribed Million £800 000 000 [National Debt]. He sits on bales of Taxes; to his back is tied a huge bundle of Last Wars Taxes. His cloth...
Alternative Title:
John Bull flourishing in a dignified attitude of strict neutrality
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1823 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street & 74 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835, Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825, and Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Public debt, Taxes, Trees, Rocks, Stocks (Punishment), Forts & fortifications, Cannons, Devil, and Frogs
"Caricature with the oak of England, weighed down by George IV and his mistresses swinging on its branches, being undermined by devils, watched by an appalled John Bull."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Old oak in danger
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published September 1820 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, and Windsor Castle,
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Adultery, Mistresses, Trees, Oaks, Swings, Devil, Axes, Soldiers, Bridges, and Castles & palaces