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 text below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Text arranged on both sides of title: The lovely stranger stands confest a maid in all her charms., 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):
Older people, Single women, Ugliness, Pets, Cats, Dogs, Birds, and Monkeys
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
April 9th 1833.
Call Number:
833.04.09.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire on the puritanical message of strictly observing the Sabbath. A puritan stands on a barrel marked 'St. Andrew', his arms held out making a cross. He cries: "Clear the streets of all evil doers - Remember ye keep severely strict the Sabbath day. 6 days and nights shall thou labour & do all that thou can get to do: but the 7th day is the Sabbarh of the Bishops according to law, and of the Ranters, and the Jumpers, and the Pantilers, and the Devildodgers and the Muggletonians and the Sawney Kirkmen and the Believers in the Unknown Tongues and the Irvins and the Spencer Percivals and the Agnews and the Mawworms and the Welllingtons and the Miguels and the Nickolas's and all the Whigs and Tories. In it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou & thy son & thy daughter & thy servant & thy dog & thy cat & thy horse & thy ass. Neither shall thou eat, drink, sleep, run, walk, nor talk under the penalties of fine confiscation, excommunication, carceration, starvation & D-nnation." Surrounding him are rotund puritans carrying clubs attack people going about their Sunday business. In the lower left one of the puritans raises a club over his head ready to strike a pig and saying, " Sacriligous monster to dare to eat on the blessed Sabbath." Above along the left edge, a thinner Puritan in a tall hat with an outstretched hand and a raised club stops a couple carrying a suitcase and bag and demands, "Hollo here! Where ar you going to on a Sunday." They reply, "Why for a bit of a jaunt in the Gravesend Steamer to be sure. It's the only day we can get out for a bit of hair. I'm afeard the wessel's off afore now, so don't stop us, man." In upper left, a Puritan points his stick up at a man sitting in a window, smoking a pipe and cries, "I say what smoke's that comming out of your chimney. You have been either blowing the fire or else you'r boiling summut. Put out the fire instantly or - - - - !!!" In the center of the sheet, a Puritan with club raised, pulls at the box of a young boy causing the tankards to spill out; he says, " Let go you wicked wrtech, to carry out beer on a Sunday." In the center foreground, a Purtain with a very large nose looks down a grate in the street and observes " There's some evil a brewing down here. Aye, as I'm a sinner if there isn't some new ale & yeast with it too. Now I should't be at all surprised if the yeast & the ale ain't a working togeather." In the center, a very fat Puritan with a bottle in his pocket grabs a very thin man by the neck and shakes his club as he asks, "Now young man what's the reason you a'n't at Chappel." To which the poor man replies, " Vy, sir, I'm going to the docters for some fizic for the bowel complaint." His accoster replies, "Well, you must to morrow because if you take it to day no doubt it'll work." On the right, a couple of puritans with guns shoot at a thin dog who runs from them, dropping his bone; the one says, " Shoot the infidel, he's got a bone." in the right foreground, another large Puritan with a Bible in his pocket grabs a thin man by the collar, "Sinner drop that toad in a hole." In the upper right, two puritans pull passengers from a carriage while another two stop the horses from the front. The coachman brandishing a whip, calls out "I say you cunting hypocrits, jist let go my horses or I'm bless'd if I don't luy this here vip on ye back."
Alternative Title:
Coersion for England
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. by G. Tregear, 123 Cheapside, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Agnew, Andrew, Sir, 1793-1849.
Subject (Topic):
Sabbath legislation, Puritans, Couples, Dogs, Fear, Hoodlums, Nightsticks, and Swine
"Portrait, head and shoulders, directed and looking slightly to left; wearing an open coat over ecclesiastical robes and bands."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Reverend William Betham
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: L,61.37, and Place of publication from publisher's known place of activity.
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.
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.
Two men stand on the sidewalk under a street lamp, one of whom is a dustman with a pipe sticking out of his cap who asks the other, a large tradesman in an apron about his emaciated, muzzled dog. The dialogue below the title reads: I say Joe, what makes you Muzzle Brutus? Vy he's such a beggar for grub, he'd spile his shape in 5 minnits if it was off, and he only got sight of a butcher's shop
Description:
Title from text below image., 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., and Glued (heavily applied) onto yellow album paper and mounted to: 40 x 29 cm.
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.