"Two committee-men make requisitions from a peasant and a barrow-woman. One takes a fish from the creel on the fisherman's back, and puts it into a small cornucopia which he holds. The victim, who wears trousers and sabots filled with straw, holds a p...
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 1832.
Call Number:
Maidment G761 no. 9
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Working class men in patched and tattered clothing discuss the Reform Act. Among them are a dustman holding a broom and shaking shands with a Black man; a tailor holding scissors; a sailor in uniform; and a stereotypical Irishman pushing a wheelbarrow...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by Tregear, 123 Cheapside, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Working class, Reform, Brooms & brushes, Pipes (Smoking), Tailors, Scissors & shears, Sailors, Ethnic stereotypes, and Wheelbarrows
View of a procession of citizens down a city street, led by a man wearing a gown and holding a broom in his left hand [suggesting that he is perhaps Brougham] and a rolled document inscribed "The Address" in his right hand. Storefronts are seen in the...
Alternative Title:
Very virtuous ladies of St. Mary le-bone proceeding to address Her Majesty and Very virtuous ladies of St. Marrow-bone proceeding to address Her Majesty
Description:
Title from text below image; the last three letters of "Marrow" are scored through and the letters "y" and "le" inserted above the line with a caret.
Publisher:
Published by G. Fortnum, No. 11 Ball Alley, Lombard Street, London
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868., and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron.
"A broadside satirising a quack in London; with an engraving showing a street scene, a varied crowd of people surrounding "Waltho Van Claturbank, High German Doctor", on horseback, offering packages of remedies; behind him is his zany or fool, also on...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill & Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Claturbank, Waltho van, pseud.,
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Quacks, Fools & jesters, Medicines, Crowds, Peddlers, Wheelbarrows, Baskets, Fruit, and Monkeys
