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- Creator:
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1841]
- Call Number:
- 841.00.00.37+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On the left, poor emaciated laborers are chained to the ground while above them dangle bread, meat and beer just out of their reach. Behind them a building inscribed 'Poor Law Union'. The ground is inscribed 'Land of the free'. A crowd of people enter a tunnel that above has a sign that reads, 'County Gaol.' In contrast, on the right fat Members of Parliament sit and listen to a speech against Poor Law Reform made by possibly Melborne (William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne) who has a paper inscribed with '£70 000 Per Annum'.
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left portion of design., 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., "Price 1d. plain."--Upper right corner., and Wood engraving with letterpress text.
- Publisher:
- Printed and published by B.D. Cousins, 18, Duke-Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Melbourne, William Lamb, Viscount, 1779-1848
- Subject (Topic):
- Poor persons, Laborers, Chains, Bread, Meat, Beer, Tunnels, Jails, Politicians, and Public speaking
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > England in the nineteenth century!! [graphic]