Sketches in and about Dovor and Sketches in and about Dover
Description:
Title from text in upper right corner of print., Various captioned and uncaptioned designs on print., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
At Vauxhall Gardens, the Master of Ceremonies, C.H. Simpson greets a man in uniform as fashionable visitors look on. Projected in the background is a view of his colossal likeness, in variegated lamps, taken in the Gardens on the 19th of August (the night of his benefit).
Description:
Title from caption below image., Three lines of text below title: To. C.H. Simpson, Esqr. M.C. of the Royal Gardens Vauxhall ... on the night of his benefit ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price 1s. 6d. Plain. 2s. 6d cold.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet trimmed with loss of plate mark: sheet 25.3 x 18 cm.
Publisher:
Published by W. Kidd, 14 Chandos Stt. West Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Simpson, Christopher Herbert, 1770-1835, and Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
Title from heading above image., A. Sharpshooter identified tentatively as John Phillips. See British Museum catalogue., Numerous small designs, many of them individually titled., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from central prominent design., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption to most prominent design., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption to central prominent design., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Four lines of verse below title: The Souter tould his queerest stories the landlords laugh was ready chorus ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
That's a beautiful cannon Tom and That's a beautifull cannon Tom
Description:
Title from text below image. and Date of publication based on publisher's street address. G.S. Tregear was located at 123 Cheapside from 1828 to 1833, moving to 96 Cheapside in 1834; see British Museum online catalogue.
Title from text below image. and Date of publication based on publisher's street address. G.S. Tregear was located at 123 Cheapside from 1828 to 1833, moving to 96 Cheapside in 1834; see British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
Published by G. Tregear, 123 Cheapside and Printed by Lefevre & Kohler, 52 Newman St.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
840.00.00.31+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Satire on attempts to enforce Observance of the Sabbath. John Bull sits miserably in a corner of a room. In the five lines etched at the top of image, we learn that he has no food or tobacco and is unable to go out for fear of the 'Arm'd Blue Devil' (i.e., a bearded 'bobby' or a Metropolitan Policeman, a member of the force founded by Sir Robert Peel in 1829) who can be seen through a window with a cracked pane. John Bull complainant about "Observing the Sabbath with a vengeance" is a response to Sir Andrew Agnew, the Member of Parliament for Wigtownshire, attempt to enforce better Observance of the Sabbath through the introduction of four bills to the House of Commons between 1830 and 1847. On his third attempt Charles Dickens wrote 'Sunday Under Three Heads' (1836), a personal attack on Agnew, whom he described as a fanatic, motivated by resentment of the idea that those poorer than himself might have any pleasure in life. Agnew left Parliament in 1837, ending the campaign
Alternative Title:
Englishman's fireside!
Description:
Title from text below image., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Five lines of text above image: Here's a pretty pass things are come to! This is observing the Sabbath with a vengeance! ..., 1 print : wood engraving on wove paper ; sheet 33.7 x 23.8 cm., Imperfect; trimmed with loss of series title and numbering from top edge and imprint from bottom edge., and Formerly misidentified as having an 1840 publication date.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Agnew, Andrew, Sabbath legislation, John Bull (Symbolic character), Distress, Interiors, Police, and Starvation