Adapted from a broadside published by J. Quick: The manager's last kick, or The distruction of the boroughmongers. "A crude, confused, and complicated design, the characters unrecognizable. William IV, riding 'The Good Old Grey'and accompanied by his Ministers, notably Brougham using the Mace as a broom, chases boroughmongers who fall head first into a pit (right), the 'Slough of Despond'. Russell, saying 'What do you think of my Purge now' , leads the "Grey", which snorts 'Reform'. The King: 'Begone you sad Rogues you have sat here long enough!!!' The ground on which they stand is 'Magna Charter'. The most conspicuous "Boroughmonger" is Sir R. Wilson in uniform with a kettle labelled 'A present from Southwk' tied to his coat-tail; he holds two papers: 'Lies against Bonaparte' and 'Queen's Trial'. Others include Wetherell saying 'I'm Again for Boroughbridge', Peel saying 'I'm Going to Tamworth'. Hunt's top-booted legs protrude from a blacking jar labelled 'Matchless for Impudence and Blacking!!!'. The members for Westminster try to save themselves, Hobhouse by clinging to the top of the pit, inscribed 'Westminster', Burdett by clinging to Hobhouse's coat-tails; in the latter's pockets are 'Catholic Bill' and 'Corn Bill'; he says: 'Holdfast Cam we are sure to get in again'. Other boroughs named, each with its doomed M.P. (represented usually by legs in air) are 'Newark: His Grace's Seat'; 'Newry', 'Penryn', 'Gatton', 'Old Sarum', 'Sudbury', 'Newport', 'Alderbury' [twice], 'Hedon', 'Corfe Castle'. O'Connell, waist-deep near 'New Sarum', holds up his arms to the Westminster M.P.'s, shouting, 'I'll join you Boys let's have a Union'. John Bull (left), obese and jolly, watches the doomed anti-Reformers, waving his hat and shouting 'Huzza! well done William!' Behind (right) is the façade of Bethlehem Hospital (Bedlam) with a lunatic waving from each window: 'No Reform'; 'Corruption for ever'; one of them is Wellington saying 'Its a Mistake'. They are 'The Bedlamites'. Below are the verses of a street poet and "A Dialogue between John Bull and his Friend, Concerning the Row at the King's Theatre . . .". The naive text is applicable to the election of 1831, not to that of 1832, but such street papers are without accuracy. The seventh of eight verses, contrasting William IV with George IV: William is a Sailor bold sir, And on the waves he has often roll'd, sir, He wants no Marquesses wives or Daughters, To spend his time at Virginea waters, He goes to neither Parks or Races, A slobbering ladies' pretty faces, He guides the helm and keeps his station, And knows what is wanted through the nation."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Distruction of the Boroughmongers and Destruction of the Boroughmongers
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and date from British Museum online catalogue record for 1832 print., and Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, no. 17342.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Plate numbered '1' in upper right corner., Eight lines of verse pasted on sheet: It is now forty years, I guess since I was a girl coming out ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Series statement in ms near top of sheet: Misfortunes of a large nose in six plates.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[23 June 1832]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 832 no. 7
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The head and fore-paws of a bull-dog, its Collar inscribed 'John Bull', extends into the design from the right. Its left paw presses down a rat with the head of Wellington, who looks up in anguish at the dog's angry jowl. Behind are other frightened rats with human heads: a bloated bishop, Peel, Wetherell, Eldon, Cumberland, and two others. The rats have been robbing the barn of ears of wheat."--British 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., Text following series statement: Political, satirical, and humourous. Price one penny., Text below title: Reform yourselves, or my method may not suit you., Publisher's advertisement in a panel below title: Chubb's edition of the Reform Bill is just printed, price 3d., containing every clause and schedule as in the original edition ..., Additional publisher's advertisement at bottom of sheet: All the numbers of John Bull's picture gallery will be re-printed next week and may be had at the publisher's, W. Chubb, 48 Holywell Street, Strand, London., and A copy after of no. 16647 in v. 11 of Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
W. Chubb
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Wetherell, Charles, Sir, 1770-1846, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, George V, King of Hanover, 1819-1878, and Tory Party (Great Britain)
Title from text below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Plate numbered '4' in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Eight lines of verse in letterpress pasted on sheet: Five daughters blessed our happy state like young olives round our bed ...
Title from text below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Plate numbered '3' in upper right corner., Four lines of verse pasted on sheet: And oh! how painful it was to hear, when our son was in swaddling-clothes ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1832?]
Call Number:
832.00.00.42
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Text following title: When snip meets snip then comes the tug of war!, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A stout soldier stands with his hand on his heart on the sidewalk below the window smiling at four young women with large noses who look down at him longingly
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Eight lines of verse pasted on sheet: No beau will be seen in our companydo all that we possibly can ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A man with a large nose and holding a walking stick walks arm-in-arm with a fashionably dressed young lady who holds a umbrella over her head. A woman holding the hands of two children walk toward them from the right; they all wear hats and the woman has her nose in the air. Behind the couple (left) is a man who holds a basket and makes a mocking gesture at the couple
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Four lines of verse pasted on sheet: Now, whether his nose had two corners or three, unlucky! I did not heed them but I thought, form its length, the better 'twould be as a handle by which to lead him., Plate numbered '2' in upper right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Children, Couples, Hats, Noses, Teasing, Umbrellas, and Walking
A copy after Hogarth's print "Gin Lane" that first issued in 1751, with seven lines of text in letterpress below image warning of the evils of drinking gin: "The sin of drunkenness expels reason, drowns memory, distempers the body, defaces beauty ... the root of all evil is drunkenness!
Alternative Title:
Gin Lane
Description:
Title from letterpress text above image., Title engraved below image: Gin Lane. "Hogarth" engraved above image., Imprint engraved below image., "Price one penny plain, two-pence coloured."--Bottom of letterpress sheet., Marks was active at this Smithfield address from 1832 until his death in 1855. See British Museum online catalogue., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by J.L. Marks, 91 Long Lane, Smithfield
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholism, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Gin, and Intoxication
"William IV, as Mars, in Roman armour, stands defiantly in a war-chariot drawn by three galloping horses, ridden by Discord, a virago with serpents for hair, who brandishes a handful of serpents. He holds a shield inscribed 'Signed Protocols', and a levelled spear; on his helmet is a dragon with gaping jaws. The chariot advances upon terrified Dutch soldiers (left), who flee; one drops his musket, but one on the extreme left (William I) stands firm beside the muzzle of a cannon and glares at the King with an obstinate scowl. They have high-crowned hats, with a ribbon inscribed 'Orange'. Facing the chariot-horses (left) are a menacing Russian bear and a Prussian Death's Head hussar with a levelled blunderbuss. Discord, looking sideways at the Prussian though turning away from him, says: 'A word in your Ear! there's nothing meant, its all show just to frighten these Dutchmen a little'. Under the chariot is a document inscribed 'Treatys'; the wheel is about to collide with a large stone inscribed 'Ireland', on which the features of O'Connell are faintly suggested. Behind the chariot are three Furies, with serpents for hair, and holding firebrands and bunches of serpents. Rushing forward, they urge the King on; they are (left to right) Grey, Durham, and Brougham. As a background to the chariot a swarm of countless frogs (French soldiers) is dimly suggested; they rush forward, with a tricolour flag. On the front of the chariot perches a Gallic cock. In the foreground (right) stands John Bull, stout and spectacled; he clutches his 'Reform Bill', and gapes up in horror, saying, 'Hey dey here's a bobbery, just as I was going to look over my Reform Bill quietly, what do they mean not to go to war sure now,!! after suffering Poland to be annihilated & Germany trampled on, Oh nonsense! Nonsense'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Publisher from publisher's statement "Published on the first of every month by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London" on first page of magazine; date of publication from series numbering "Vol. 3rd, Novr. 1st, 1832" on first page of magazine. See British Museum catalogue., Fourth page of a monthly magazine that consisted of four pages., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed resulting in loss of series title and numbering from top edge.
Publisher:
T. McLean
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, William I, King of the Netherlands, 1772-1843, O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847., Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Durham, John George Lambton, Earl of, 1792-1840, and Mars (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Armor, Chariots, Snakes, Shields, Spears, Firearms, Soldiers, Dutch, Prussian, National emblems, Bears, Frogs, and Roosters
