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1. A labourer in the good cause [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately March 1828]
- Call Number:
- 828.03.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Eldon stands with his shirt-sleeves rolled up, carrying a great stack of petitions under each arm. On his head is a porter's knot made of a pair of green bags (emblem of 'Old Bags', see British Museum Satires No. 12883); on this rests a third pile of bulky parchments. Round his right leg is an unfastened garter inscribed '. . . d Expects Every Man will do' [his duty]. He puffs; sweat streams down his forehead; he says: 'Hard work this--got plenty more to bring down yet--.' The petitions are inscribed 'Petition' [five times]; 'against Concession' [twice]; 'Petition against'; '30.000 Inhabitants'; 'Humbly Sheweth'; 'Petition against Concession--' [twice] '3.00 Inhabitants'; '4000 of the . . .'; 'signed by 130.000 Men Women & Children ; 60,000 Respectable Inhabitants'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to: 40 x 30.5 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
- Subject (Name):
- Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838
- Subject (Topic):
- Petitions, Bags, Head-carrying, and Lifting & carrying
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A labourer in the good cause [graphic]
