"Wetherell (left), an invalid in dressing-gown and night-cap, reclines in an arm-chair, exhausted but laughing. Facing him stands Eldon in deep dejection, saying, with both hands raised, 'Poor Boroughbridge! how is it with you?' Cumberland, on the extreme right, stands behind Eldon, covering his face with his handkerchief; he says: 'Facetious to the last!--It is quite affecting!' Horace Twiss leans on the back of Wetherell's chair; Chandos, dressed as a woman, stoops over the patient; both are smiling. Wetherell: 'All over my friends! just in time to hear my "last speech and dying words"! But dont look so grave about it, I assure you we treat the matter in our house as if it was an excellent joke--to be sent out of the world with a dose of Russell's purge"! is so droll; & then, we are to have such a merry funeral'. On a commode is a bottle labelled 'Russell's purge'. Peel, smiling, and Goulburn, holding a handkerchief to his face and leaning on Peel, watch from the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Print signed with the monogram "HB," which was used by John Doyle., and Series title and number at top right.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed by C. Motte, 25 Leicester Sqre
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Wetherell, Charles, Sir, 1770-1846, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of, 1797-1861, Twiss, Horace, 1787-1849, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Goulburn, Henry, 1784-1856, Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878., and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Reform, Politics and government, Commodes, Crying, Deathbeds, Government officials, and British
Title from text below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : lithograph on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.5 x 20.3 cm., Imperfect; imprint of publisher C. Tilt has been erased from sheet., and Partial watermark.
Publisher:
Published by C. Tilt, Fleet Street and G.E. Madeley, lith., 3 Wellington Stt., Strand
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[February 1831]
Call Number:
831.02.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Grey as schoolmaster stands on a low dais in profile to the right, addressing nine schoolboys (Tories); he holds an open book, 'Reformers First Primer', and leans on his desk, saying, 'Say after Me I Shou'd Reform Thou Shoudst Reform He Shoud Reform We Shou'd Reform You Shou'd Reform They Shou'd Reform'. Behind him is the front portion of an ornate chair, as in the French print. Brougham stands full-face, as usher, holding a big birch-rod (see British Museum Satires No. 15535). Four pupils sit on the front bench behind them is another row of four; Wellington stands behind on a stool (invisible) wearing a fool's cap, like an extinguisher, decorated with bells. He holds a torn primer, and with his fingers to his mouth says 'I Can't Reform'. Peel is the only boy who looks at Grey. The pupils are ill-drawn and badly characterized; two are Lyndhurst and Goulburn, wearing spectacles. All (except Lyndhurst, who is in wig and gown) wear boyish dress, with white neck-frills or collars, some wearing pinafores."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Conjugation of the verb To reform
Description:
Title from text below image., Digit "3" in year "1831" in imprint is printed backwards., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 213.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 1831 by S. Gans, Southampton St., Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, and Goulburn, Henry, 1784-1856
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Lecterns, Teachers, Books, Reform, Students, Chairs, and Fools' caps
Seven captioned images on plate: Cross bun; A votary of Hy-men; Portrait of Locke; Currant jam; A turn-up raddish; A bad tempered bit of steel; One of the tribe of Aaron
Description:
Title from heading above image., In upper right corner: Price 1s., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from text above image., Date of publication based on watermark., Two lines of dialogue below image: "Oh my goodness Mary if there is'nt one of the monkeys got out! La how he stares at you! ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Smith & Allnutt 1831.
Title from ms. note added to mount., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Artist's attribution trimmed with loss of text., Sheet trimmed within design., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to24 x 33 cm. Ms. title on mount: Tartini's dream.
