"William IV (left), with a huge broom inscribed 'Public Opinion', sweeps away his Ministers who rush to the right in ignominious haste. His broom is against Wellington's posterior; the others (left to right) are Bathurst, Goulburn, Peel, Ellenborough, and Aberdeen. Behind them is a seventh who may be Londonderry (not an ex-Minister). Wellington: 'Oh Bob that it should have come to this, where shall we hide -- where can we go? --curse Don-Key's fee fa-fum' [see BM Satires No. 16303, &c.]. The King: 'Now I shall have a clear House -- no more dictators! out with you all 29 against your own question. Off -- off'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Only besom of reform
Description:
Title from caption below image., Approximate month of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Brooms., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 215.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1830 by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, 3d Earl, 1762-1834, Goulburn, Henry, 1784-1856, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Earl of, 1790-1871, Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of, 1784-1860, and Londonderry, Charles William Vane, Marquis of, 1778-1854
Title from caption below center image., Printmaker from title page of series., Publisher and date of publication from other prints in the series., Five designs on one plate, each individually titled., First in a series of prints with variant series names on title page and later prints: Tregear's scraps, Scraps, etc., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right edge., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1829.
On the right a steam-driven coach has exploded with the passengers thrown into the air. A hot air balloons with baskets shaped as a boat and the other as a carraige float above the trees. On the left a conventional carriage "Patent Safety Coach" with advertisements about insurance on the windows speeds away, man in the coach looking back in horror
Alternative Title:
March of invention
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1829.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Airships, Balloons (Aircraft), Insurance, and Steam automobiles
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Imprint continues: ... where political and other caricatuers are daily publis[hin]g., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image., Approximate month of publication from British Museum catalogue., Text following title: (A scene at Bushy)., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins on three edges., Temporary local subject terms: Hussar -- Male costume: Mourning scarves -- Mourning-bands., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 214.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1830 by S. Gans, Southampton Street, Strand
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Admirals, Dandies, Military officers, British, and Military uniforms
Title from caption below image., A small triangle is etched above printmaker's signature in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: West Indies., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1829.
Title from text above images., Questionable attribution to Henry Heath and date of publication from related print in British Museum catalogue. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, no. 16439., Five pairs of contrasting designs in three rows on one plate, each individually captioned., Plate number following title has been completely erased., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Twelve designs, vignetted and in three rows, contrast the manners and costume of the mid-eighteenth century with those of circa 1830. The modern men are extravagantly dandified
Description:
Title from text above images., Attribution to Henry Heath and date of publication from related prints in: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 11, no. 16439., Five pairs of contrasting designs in three rows on one plate, each individually captioned., Description based on imperfect impression; plate number following title has been erased., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"In a room filled with bales, chests, and plunder the Conyngham family prepare to depart. Lord Conyngham (left), in shirt-sleeves but elegant, tugs at the cord of an enormous bundle. Lady Conyngham struggles with the lock of a treasure-chest, saying, 'There is no such thing as getting those Devilish Locks of Bramahs open'. Her daughter carries on her shoulder the skeleton of the giraffe (see British Museum Satires No. 16108). A cupboard topped with the Royal Arms displays bare shelves; plate is heaped on the floor."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Quoted text below image: "Had sly Ulysses at the Sack - of Troy, brought thee his pedler's pack - vide Cleaveland., and Offset of another impression on verso.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1st, 1830, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832, and Athlumney, Harriet Maria Somerville, Lady, -1843
Subject (Topic):
Giraffes, Skeletons, Luggage, Clothes chests, and Cupboards
"John Bull, fat and faint, lies back in an arm-chair with a deal table before him, left foot on cushion; he is in shirt and breeches. Round him are three doctors: Wellington (left), with the over-sleeve of a surgeon, holds a bayonet with which he is about to bleed the right arm over a bucket inscribed 'Pure British'. Peel (right), more insinuatingly, proffers a large bolus. Behind John's chair stands the King, saying, 'Patience Johnny'. Wellington, who wears blue frock-coat and white trousers, looks down at the patient through spectacles; he says: 'Come, Mr Bull, you are very plethoric--it is absolutely necessary that I phlebotomise you--you have a determination of blood to the head with strong symptoms of Choler!!!' Peel: 'Come, John, you must take this anodyne pill,--it will compose you "The ulcerous parts are only peel & skin I whilst deep corruption's mining all within" Pope' [sic]. On the table are a large pill-box inscribed 'Musket Balls', and a bottle labelled 'Black Dose Bitters' which stand on a paper: 'Prescription Taxation Decline of Trade National debt Want of Free Trade &c &c &c &c'. On the boarded floor is Wellington's syringe inscribed 'Injection of Injuries'. On the wall are a pair of pistols, 'Firing Irons', and a sabretache and bayonet inscribed respectively 'Pill Box' and 'Lancet'. J. B.'s dog (right) angrily befouls a chest inscribed 'Medecines Wise remedies Property Tax'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as John Phillips in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.9158., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Politics, British -- The Lancet.
Publisher:
Pub. March 8, 1830, by S. Gans, 15 Southampton St., Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Peel, Robert, 1788-1850., and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Finance, Public, Property tax, Politicians, Physician and patient, Phlebotomy, Dogs, Costume, History, Hypodermic syringes, Pails, Bayonets, Handguns, and Urination
