Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data form local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from text above images., Attribution to Henry Heath from the description of a related print in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.3.171., Probably one of a series of prints, published by S. Gans, that includes a print entitled "Fears"; Cf. No. 15972 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11., Seven designs on one plate, each individually titled., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image., The word 'my' from the title is inserted superscript over a caret symbol., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image., Imprint continues: ... sole publisher of W-Heaths etching., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image; title and plate number enclosed within curly brackets., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Questionable date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Text on either side of title: A few small inconveniences. There's nothing perfect., and Temporary local subject terms: Steam.
"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.
