Title from caption below image., Two lines of dialogue below title: Minister, Will thou take this woman for thy wedded wife? ..., Publisher's advertisement in lower margin: See the following laughable plates, 2/each colour'd ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Pregnancy -- Bride and groom -- Clergy -- Interior of church -- Wedding.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[16 June 1832?]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 832 no. 6 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Devil, laden with Tories, strides to the left, quoting the Duke of Newcastle with a gloating grin: 'Can't I do what I like with MY OWN' [see BM Satires No. 15884, &c.]. Across his shoulder is a trident on which a bloated bishop is spiked. From the lower end of the handle a rat-trap (see BM Satires No. 15734), on which Peel sits, hangs by a rope. Wellington, encircled by the barbed tail, is dragged along, kicking violently. He is in uniform with spurred boots; a gibbet projects from his cocked hat. Under the Devil's arm are two lawyers: Wetherell in his slovenly dress, and Lyndhurst. The remainder are tied by ropes to the Devil's back; most prominent (left to right) are Ellenborough, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Croker. The others are scarcely characterized; a Scots cap may denote Lauderdale, a renegade."--Britism Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image; series statement at top of image., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., "Price one penny"--Text following series subtitle., Publisher's advertisement at bottom of sheet: All the numbers of John Bull's picture gallery may be had at the publisher's, W. Chubb, 48 Holywell Street, Strand, London., and An adaptation of no. ??? in v. 11 of Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
W. Chubb
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Tory Party (Great Britain), Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857, George V, King of Hanover, 1819-1878, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Wetherell, Charles, Sir, 1770-1846, and William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, 1776-1834
A series of crude (and in some cases explicitly racist) lithographed cards numbered 1-16, with scenes relating to political reform on both sides of the Atlantic. On British side, they cover the reforms to the franchise made by the 1832 Reform Act, poking fun at 'poor distress'd turn'd out Boroughmongers' (No. 1), the rural squirearchy (No. 7), Taxes (No. 9), the established Church (No. 10) and Irishmen (no. 12), among others. United States political issues are shown in the second card which reuses - with added racist slurs - the design of Edward Williams Clay (1799-1857) entitled 'Hurrah! hurrah for Genl. Jackson!!' under the caption 'Life in Philadelphia'. Cards nos. 4 and 7, with yet more overt racism, use references to American segregationism to caricature British political positions
Description:
Title from dealer's description., Approximate date of publication based on publisher's street address; the York stationer and lithographer William Fletcher Wodson (1801-1860) operated from his "2 Pavement" location only between 1830 and 1833. Additional evidence comes from references to the 1832 Reform Act and the presidency of Andrew Jackson., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
W.F. Wodson, lith., Pavement, York
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and United States
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Reform, Politics and government, Ethnic stereotypes, Poverty, and Racism
Image divided into six scenes captioned individually: Dizzy; Foolish; Evidently inebriated; Considerably intoxicated; Uncommon drunk; Indisputedly dead drunk!
Alternative Title:
Six gradations of a drunkard
Description:
Title from heading etched above image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"Four over-fed doctors carouse at a table laden with rounds of beef and decanters. Each holds up a glass and gives a toast. The man at the head of the table (left): 'Long life to our Central Board--R |. "in medio tutissimus bibis [for ibis]"--as we say in the classics'. His vis-à-vis: 'May we preserve our health by bleeding the country'. The man in back view: 'I drink Reform in our Hospitals, may they close their doors against the public & the poor die in Hackney coaches'. On the back of his chair: 'Board & Lodging'. His vis-à-vis: 'I pledge myself to keep some cases afloat'. From their coat-pockets hang big bloated purses. Beside the first speaker a long scroll hangs from a writing-table (left): 'Post Mortem Appearances, want of Employment Poverty Starvation Quarantine Stagnation Distress Blue Ruin' [gin]. On the floor (right): 'While Drs differ & deny--The Country bleeds & patients die'. Above the principal doctor hangs a picture of a bottle (blue) emitting smoke, and with head, arms, and legs, capering menacingly. This (a symbol of humbug, cf. British Museum Satires No. 14507) is 'Contagious Cholera'. At the other end of the room (right) packing-cases are piled from floor to ceiling inscribed (reading downwards): 'A bad case' [broken]; 'Cases made on the Shortest Notice'; 'Per varios [sic] casus, per tot discrimina rerum" | Tendimus" | "By various cases & such discrimination | we get on." | Docrs Transtn --'; 'Dr Bolus Case Maker'; 'New Case' [twice]."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cholera consultation
Description:
Title from text below image. Additional title above image: Cholera consultation., "A. Bird" is a pseudonym of William Henry Merle; see British Museum catalogue., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dr. Bolus., and 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; sheet 28.1 x 43.8 cm.
Publisher:
Published by S. Knights, Sweetings Alley, Royal Exchange
Subject (Topic):
Cholera, Health boards, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Physicians, and Toasting
"Four over-fed doctors carouse at a table laden with rounds of beef and decanters. Each holds up a glass and gives a toast. The man at the head of the table (left): 'Long life to our Central Board--R |. "in medio tutissimus bibis [for ibis]"--as we say in the classics'. His vis-à-vis: 'May we preserve our health by bleeding the country'. The man in back view: 'I drink Reform in our Hospitals, may they close their doors against the public & the poor die in Hackney coaches'. On the back of his chair: 'Board & Lodging'. His vis-à-vis: 'I pledge myself to keep some cases afloat'. From their coat-pockets hang big bloated purses. Beside the first speaker a long scroll hangs from a writing-table (left): 'Post Mortem Appearances, want of Employment Poverty Starvation Quarantine Stagnation Distress Blue Ruin' [gin]. On the floor (right): 'While Drs differ & deny--The Country bleeds & patients die'. Above the principal doctor hangs a picture of a bottle (blue) emitting smoke, and with head, arms, and legs, capering menacingly. This (a symbol of humbug, cf. British Museum Satires No. 14507) is 'Contagious Cholera'. At the other end of the room (right) packing-cases are piled from floor to ceiling inscribed (reading downwards): 'A bad case' [broken]; 'Cases made on the Shortest Notice'; 'Per varios [sic] casus, per tot discrimina rerum" | Tendimus" | "By various cases & such discrimination | we get on." | Docrs Transtn --'; 'Dr Bolus Case Maker'; 'New Case' [twice]."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cholera consultation
Description:
Title from text below image. Additional title above image: Cholera consultation., "A. Bird" is a pseudonym of William Henry Merle; see British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dr. Bolus.
Publisher:
Published by S. Knights, Sweetings Alley, Royal Exchange
Subject (Topic):
Cholera, Health boards, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Physicians, and Toasting
A satire of William IV's involvement in the debate leading up to the Reform Act of 1832: A cat with the face of William IV is being persuaded to pull a hot chestnut from a blazing fire by a bewigged monkey (Lord Chancellor Henry Brougham). The fire is labelled with words such as 'rights', 'reform', and 'popularity'. A portrait of Whig Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, hangs above the fireplace
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date inferred from the subject matter of the print. Publisher Marianne Humphrey, the widow of George Humphrey, operated her late husband's publishing business from 1831 to 1835; see British Museum online catalogue., Five lines of verse below title: A cat and a monkey tired of play ..., For an 1821 print of similar composition, entitled "The man of the woods & the cat-o'-mountain" and satirizing the relationship between Queen Caroline and Sir Matthew Wood, see no. 14131 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Marianne Humphreys, St. James's Stt
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, and Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845,
Subject (Topic):
Reform, Cats, Monkeys, Fireplaces, Bookcases, Irons (Pressing), and Portraits
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
Jany. 1832.
Call Number:
832.01.00.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man hunched over a fire in an empty room as eight tradespeople -- a chandler, a baker, a butcher, a dairy woman, a tailor, and a dustman -- fight to present their unpaid bills, long scrolls of paper that they show to the bankrupt man. He responds: ‘God bless me Wot a Posse of ye - I’m very Sorry to inform ye my good Folks that I’ve just been turn’d a Bankrupt’.
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher's advertisement on either side of title: The following laughable plates 1/- each colour'd, Tregear’s Flights of Humour 14 plates, Tenant at Will, Leaseholder, Living Cheap, Chip of the Old Block, Humourous Scraps, Matrimony, Burstyersides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Remnants of formerly mounted printed matter on verso.
Publisher:
Pub. by Tregear, Cheapside, London
Subject (Topic):
Debt, Garbage collecting, Interiors, Fireplaces, and People associated with manual labor
Title from text below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., A separate sheet with four lines of verse in letterpress is pasted beneath title: Now the length and the shape of your husband's nose is a thing that don't signify ..., Plate numbered '5' in upper right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
