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1. A scene from Vatheck (realized) [graphic]
- Creator:
- Doyle, John, 1797-1868
- Published / Created:
- [22 December 1845]
- Call Number:
- Babb-Beckford no. 100+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A group of men wearing oriental costumes and turbans kicking a ball lettered with 'Corn Laws', seen rolling at left; the Caliph (fourth from left, Sir Robert Peel) more furious than the rest, kicking hardest (others kicking, from left to right, Richard Cobden, Lord Morpeth, John Bright, Lord Aberdeen, Sir James Graham, Henry Goulburn, Duke of Buckingham, Duke of Richmond); a man, in the character of Mozamhabad (Duke of Wellington) and his companion (Lord Stanley) kneeling in foreground at right, trying to stop the Caliph, without success."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Scene from Vathek (realized)
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Print signed with the monogram "HB," which was used by John Doyle., Likely a proof state before minor changes were made to the design., Sheet trimmed with nearly complete loss of series statement from upper right margin; series numbering from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.; 1868,0808.12180., Three lines of quoted text below image: "The Caliph more furious than the rest, followed close, & gave as many kicks as he could. ...", and With contemporary pencil annotations, perhaps by the artist, indicating corrections to be made to the design. Additional notes in pencil below image identify the figures and label the print as a "Proof."
- Publisher:
- Published Decr. 22nd, 1845, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed at 70 St. Martin's Lane
- Subject (Name):
- Beckford, William, 1760-1844., Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Cobden, Richard, 1804-1865, Carlisle, George William Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1802-1864, Bright, John, 1811-1889, Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of, 1784-1860, Graham, James, Sir, 1792-1861, Goulburn, Henry, 1784-1856, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of, 1797-1861, Richmond, Charles Gordon-Lennox, Duke of, 1791-1860, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1799-1869
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A scene from Vatheck (realized) [graphic]
2. Bull bamboozled both ways - robbed in one department, and burnt out in another [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [after 30 October 1841]
- Call Number:
- 841.10.30.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Wellington (as Constable of the Tower of London) holds a pistol to the head of John Bull, as Henry Goulburn (Chancellor of the Exchequer) harangues Bull from the other side, forcing John to reach into his pockets to pay for the rebuilding of the Tower of London, seen burning in the background
- Description:
- Title from item., Signed with the initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant., Part of a new series of The political drama that was begun in 1841. See pages 12-13 in: C.J. Grant's political drama: a radical satirist rediscovered. London : University College, c1998., Sheet trimmed with partial loss of printed border., Wood engraving with letterpress text., "Price 1d. plain."--Upper right corner., and Mounted to: 57 x 38 cm. With a fragment of a burnt document from the 30 October fire at the Tower of London that destroyed the Grand Armoury. With a note saying that it had been recovered on 6 November. The fragment contains references to Viscount Townsherd (Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance in the Greenville Ministry in 1763), Sir Charles Frederick (1709-1785), and James Syme are among the legible names.
- Publisher:
- Printed and published by B.D. Cousins, 18, Duke-Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Goulburn, Henry, 1784-1856, Tower of London (London, England),, and Tower of London (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Fires and fire prevention, John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Handguns, and Fires
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bull bamboozled both ways - robbed in one department, and burnt out in another [graphic]
3. Long expected come at last, or, The only besom of reform [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. November 1830]
- Call Number:
- 830.11.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "William IV (left), with a huge broom inscribed 'Public Opinion', sweeps away his Ministers who rush to the right in ignominious haste. His broom is against Wellington's posterior; the others (left to right) are Bathurst, Goulburn, Peel, Ellenborough, and Aberdeen. Behind them is a seventh who may be Londonderry (not an ex-Minister). Wellington: 'Oh Bob that it should have come to this, where shall we hide -- where can we go? --curse Don-Key's fee fa-fum' [see BM Satires No. 16303, &c.]. The King: 'Now I shall have a clear House -- no more dictators! out with you all 29 against your own question. Off -- off'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Only besom of reform
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Approximate month of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Brooms., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 215.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. 1830 by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, 3d Earl, 1762-1834, Goulburn, Henry, 1784-1856, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Earl of, 1790-1871, Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of, 1784-1860, and Londonderry, Charles William Vane, Marquis of, 1778-1854
- Subject (Topic):
- Brooms & brushes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Long expected come at last, or, The only besom of reform [graphic]
4. The last of the Boroughbridges [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- March 14th, 1831.
- Call Number:
- 831.03.14.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Wetherell (left), an invalid in dressing-gown and night-cap, reclines in an arm-chair, exhausted but laughing. Facing him stands Eldon in deep dejection, saying, with both hands raised, 'Poor Boroughbridge! how is it with you?' Cumberland, on the extreme right, stands behind Eldon, covering his face with his handkerchief; he says: 'Facetious to the last!--It is quite affecting!' Horace Twiss leans on the back of Wetherell's chair; Chandos, dressed as a woman, stoops over the patient; both are smiling. Wetherell: 'All over my friends! just in time to hear my "last speech and dying words"! But dont look so grave about it, I assure you we treat the matter in our house as if it was an excellent joke--to be sent out of the world with a dose of Russell's purge"! is so droll; & then, we are to have such a merry funeral'. On a commode is a bottle labelled 'Russell's purge'. Peel, smiling, and Goulburn, holding a handkerchief to his face and leaning on Peel, watch from the background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the original version of the print
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Print signed with the monogram "HB," which was used by John Doyle., Probably a piracy of a print published 7 March 1831 by T. McLean. The publisher S. Gans was known to issue piracies of McLean prints; see British Museum online catalogue., For the original version of the print, see no. 16602 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the John Johnson Collection, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, shelfmark: Political Cartoons 5 (101).
- Publisher:
- Pub. by S. Gans, Southampton Street, Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Wetherell, Charles, Sir, 1770-1846, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of, 1797-1861, Twiss, Horace, 1787-1849, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Goulburn, Henry, 1784-1856, Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878., and Great Britain. Parliament
- Subject (Topic):
- Reform, Politics and government, Commodes, Crying, Deathbeds, Government officials, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The last of the Boroughbridges [graphic]
5. The last of the Boroughbridges [graphic]
- Creator:
- Doyle, John, 1797-1868, lithographer
- Published / Created:
- March 7th, 1831.
- Call Number:
- 831.03.07.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Wetherell (left), an invalid in dressing-gown and night-cap, reclines in an arm-chair, exhausted but laughing. Facing him stands Eldon in deep dejection, saying, with both hands raised, 'Poor Boroughbridge! how is it with you?' Cumberland, on the extreme right, stands behind Eldon, covering his face with his handkerchief; he says: 'Facetious to the last!--It is quite affecting!' Horace Twiss leans on the back of Wetherell's chair; Chandos, dressed as a woman, stoops over the patient; both are smiling. Wetherell: 'All over my friends! just in time to hear my "last speech and dying words"! But dont look so grave about it, I assure you we treat the matter in our house as if it was an excellent joke--to be sent out of the world with a dose of Russell's purge"! is so droll; & then, we are to have such a merry funeral'. On a commode is a bottle labelled 'Russell's purge'. Peel, smiling, and Goulburn, holding a handkerchief to his face and leaning on Peel, watch from the background."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Print signed with the monogram "HB," which was used by John Doyle., and Series title and number at top right.
- Publisher:
- Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed by C. Motte, 25 Leicester Sqre
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Wetherell, Charles, Sir, 1770-1846, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of, 1797-1861, Twiss, Horace, 1787-1849, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Goulburn, Henry, 1784-1856, Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878., and Great Britain. Parliament
- Subject (Topic):
- Reform, Politics and government, Commodes, Crying, Deathbeds, Government officials, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The last of the Boroughbridges [graphic]
