Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"John Bull pushing old politicians into a machine which grind them and turn them into young and honest people."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in bottom center portion of design., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "123" in brown ink in top center portion of design., and No. 123.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850 and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Grinding machines, Older people, Young adults, Scepters, Telescopes, Pitchforks, and Ladders
"John Bull as a Chinese, in Chinese costume, hugely corpulent sits full-face in an arm-chair, legs extended, hands resting on the sides of his paunch. He looks to three doctors on the left, the foremost being Grey, who leans towards him, pointing to his colleagues (left), and saying suavely, 'This deformity is quite inconsistent, believe me, with the Nature of your Constitution & therefore must be got rid of, I will undertake with your approbation, to remove it & my assistant Doctor Russell here will prepare you for the Operation'. Lord John Russell, on the extreme left, speaks confidentially to Althorp who is in back view: 'I once thought that a case of this description ought to be treated with great caution and even wrote as well as talked a great deal about it, but now I am quite of a different opinion I think there is nothing like cutting away thro' thick & thin!' J. B.: 'I ca'nt say that my bodily health was ever better, or that I ever felt stronger tho' to be sure I am not growing younger; but then every one is telling me how deformed I am grown of late & this tumour which I have had from my infancy is all a Mass of Corruption'. On the right and slightly farther from the picture-plane, the rival doctors, Peel and Wellington, are in consultation. The Duke: 'I say the Man has no defect in his Constitution & that what they call corruption is necessary to his existance--but now because he would not believe me, but choses rather to submit to the experiments of these rash operators --Wharnecliffe who is a sensible Man lays all the blame on me'. Peel: 'Yet I begin to think we could have done better, when we found him determined to think that his Constitution was impaired, to have tried--just in the way of soothing, a gentle alterative Course'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Alternative Title:
John Bull and the doctors
Description:
Title from text below image., Print signed with the monogram "HB," which was used by John Doyle., Variant state lacking C. Motte's printer statement in lower right. Cf. No. 16666 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Politics, British.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England.
Subject (Name):
Hoo Loo, 1799-1831., Grey, Charles, 2nd Earl, 1764-1845, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878, Spencer, John Charles Spencer, Earl, 1782-1845, and Wharncliffe, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley, Baron, 1776-1845.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, John Bull (Symbolic character), Tumors, Surgery, Politicians, and Obesity
"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
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[16 June 1832?]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 832 no. 6 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The Devil, laden with Tories, strides to the left, quoting the Duke of Newcastle with a gloating grin: 'Can't I do what I like with MY OWN' [see BM Satires No. 15884, &c.]. Across his shoulder is a trident on which a bloated bishop is spiked. From the lower end of the handle a rat-trap (see BM Satires No. 15734), on which Peel sits, hangs by a rope. Wellington, encircled by the barbed tail, is dragged along, kicking violently. He is in uniform with spurred boots; a gibbet projects from his cocked hat. Under the Devil's arm are two lawyers: Wetherell in his slovenly dress, and Lyndhurst. The remainder are tied by ropes to the Devil's back; most prominent (left to right) are Ellenborough, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Croker. The others are scarcely characterized; a Scots cap may denote Lauderdale, a renegade."--Britism 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., "Price one penny"--Text following series subtitle., Publisher's advertisement at bottom of sheet: All the numbers of John Bull's picture gallery may be had at the publisher's, W. Chubb, 48 Holywell Street, Strand, London., and An adaptation of no. ??? in v. 11 of Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
W. Chubb
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Tory Party (Great Britain), Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857, George V, King of Hanover, 1819-1878, Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839, Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Wetherell, Charles, Sir, 1770-1846, and William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, 1776-1834
"Peel kicks a lean old watchman behind, and drags from his shoulders his patched and tattered coat. Just behind him (right) is a big bonfire in which a watch-box and battered lanterns are blazing; beside it lie more lanterns, a rattle, and staves. In the background a watchman hangs by the neck from the branch of a tree, still holding rattle and lantern. Beside the tree is a pond from which projects an arm clutching a rattle. Peel says: '"But such a poor, bare-forked animal as thou art--Off--off you lendings: come unbutton here vide Shaks--' ["Lear", III. iv]. The terrified watchman answers: '"Nay, take my life and all, pardon not that: You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live, vide Shaks.' ["Merchant of Venice", IV. i]."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Michaelmas Day 1829, or, The last watchman and Last watchman
Description:
Title etched below image., Imprint continues: ... sole publisher of W. Heaths etching., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. Sep. 29th, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850
Subject (Topic):
Police, Watchmen, Bonfires, Drowning victims, Hangings (Executions), Kicking, and Lanterns
"John Bull, fat and faint, lies back in an arm-chair with a deal table before him, left foot on cushion; he is in shirt and breeches. Round him are three doctors: Wellington (left), with the over-sleeve of a surgeon, holds a bayonet with which he is about to bleed the right arm over a bucket inscribed 'Pure British'. Peel (right), more insinuatingly, proffers a large bolus. Behind John's chair stands the King, saying, 'Patience Johnny'. Wellington, who wears blue frock-coat and white trousers, looks down at the patient through spectacles; he says: 'Come, Mr Bull, you are very plethoric--it is absolutely necessary that I phlebotomise you--you have a determination of blood to the head with strong symptoms of Choler!!!' Peel: 'Come, John, you must take this anodyne pill,--it will compose you "The ulcerous parts are only peel & skin I whilst deep corruption's mining all within" Pope' [sic]. On the table are a large pill-box inscribed 'Musket Balls', and a bottle labelled 'Black Dose Bitters' which stand on a paper: 'Prescription Taxation Decline of Trade National debt Want of Free Trade &c &c &c &c'. On the boarded floor is Wellington's syringe inscribed 'Injection of Injuries'. On the wall are a pair of pistols, 'Firing Irons', and a sabretache and bayonet inscribed respectively 'Pill Box' and 'Lancet'. J. B.'s dog (right) angrily befouls a chest inscribed 'Medecines Wise remedies Property Tax'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as John Phillips in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.9158., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Politics, British -- The Lancet.
Publisher:
Pub. March 8, 1830, by S. Gans, 15 Southampton St., Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Peel, Robert, 1788-1850., and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Finance, Public, Property tax, Politicians, Physician and patient, Phlebotomy, Dogs, Costume, History, Hypodermic syringes, Pails, Bayonets, Handguns, and Urination
"George IV, with a swathed and gouty leg, stands in front of the throne, supported by Lady Conyngham and a crutch, his arm round her shoulder. Peel stands partly hidden by a curtain and immediately behind Wellington, his mouthpiece; he speaks into a speaking-trumpet, the stem of which passes from Wellington's ear to his mouth from which the trumpet projects. From this mouthpiece issue the words: I feel happy in being allowed thro any medium, however degrading to communicate my expressions of sincere devotion TO-- The King interrupts him: PLACE--hat will do Arthur, always keep between me and that fellow -- he rings such a peil in our Ears. Lady Conyngham turns to the King, pointing to the trumpet: This is a contrivance of my own -- I hate the sight of him & now your M-y can keep him at a distance. She wears a towering coiffure of loops of hair decorated with flowers. Beside Peel: To join with Christian Jew or Turk In doing any dirty Work."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Questionable publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 174.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
"Twelve reduced copies (hand-coloured woodcuts), crude and sometimes simplified, of caricatures, arranged in three rows of four, each in a border, having an additional title above the design, the original title (except in No. 9) being below. The original of 11 is not in the Museum. The designs are copied in British Museum Satires No. 15782, or, otherwise, from it. [1] No. 15732, reversed. Above: ''Tis all vel at Vindsor'. Inscription: 'Does jarvey [Wellington] mean to start on his own account? Them leaders seem tohave it all their own way'. [2] No. 15731, reversed. Above: 'Achilles' [cf. No. 14409]. Inscription: 'Ready to start, your Honour'. Reproduced, Hindley, Life and Times of Catnach, p. 214. [3] No. 15734, reversed and altered: Peel holds, not a cage, but a rat by the tail. Above: 'Orange Pe--l' [cf. No. 15390]. Inscription: 'He made each felley turn his coat | And caught each rat by the tail'. [4] No. 15733. Above: 'The Cunning Hen'. The inscription is as the original, but continues, 'or they'll bolt with the coach'. [5] No. 15749, reversed and with the same inscription. Above: 'Paddy Whack!' [6] No. 15736, reversed and altered. Above: 'The Oeld 'un'. His foot is on the Catholic [Bill]. Inscription: 'I drove the Long Tail Blacks [cf. No. 15658] for fifty years. I drove your dad, your honour'. [7] No. 15737, reversed and altered. Above: 'A Kow-Cumber'. Inscription: 'I say, Jemmy All-Weather [see 8], keep your eye on them fellies of the Sovereign--they're arter no good: See they dont prig our luggage. That coach is their own, they think'. [8] A copy of No. 15752, reversed. Above: 'A Man of All-Weathers'. Inscription: 'I was once a bright lad, | But now I'm a Cad'. [9] A copy of No. 15703, reversed and altered; title: 'The Man wot missed his mark'. Above: 'Once in Batter sea | NoW-in-Chelsea'. His paper is headed 'Anti-Catholicism'. On the rock are scrawled two duellists, aiming at each other. Inscription: 'Death's heads and marrow bones, are now my portion'. [10] A copy of No. 15756, reversed and without the letter. Above: 'A drive from Dublin'. Inscription: 'One kick from the leader floor'd me'. [11] 'The Man wot owns the Vestminster'. Above: 'Long Franky'. Burdett stands in profile to the left, knees flexed, regarding a small framed picture of a giraffe (see No. 15425). Inscription: 'I used to go by the John Bull, now I goes by the Sovereign'. (The radical M.P. for Westminster as a supporter of the Ministry, cf. N0.16058.) [12] 'John Bull, broke down'. Above: 'The Last Stage'. Probably based on No. 15743. J. B. stands in profile to the right, bowed under a bulky sack inscribed 'Taxation'; he rests both hands on a stout stick, inscribed 'Trade', which breaks under his pressure. (See No. 15799.)"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text at top of sheet., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., One line of quoted text below title: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.", "Price 2s."--Lower left corner., and Folded and laid in James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Printed and published by T. Rockliffe, 65 Ratcliff Highway
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, George V, King of Hanover, 1819-1878, Wetherell, Charles, Sir, 1770-1846, Winchilsea, George William Finch-Hatton, Earl of, 1791-1858, Anglesey, Henry William Paget, Marquis of, 1768-1854, and Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844
"An ancient Gothic church in the middle distance stands on a grassy hill inscribed 'Protestant Ascendency'; under the hill (left) is a cave, 'Cave of Catholic Ascendency', in which are barrels of 'Gun . Pow[der]'. A fat bare-footed friar walks away from the cave towards the picture-plane, carrying a lighted candle, and slyly laying a train of powder on the road to the cave. Standing round the church is a crowd of country people, listening to a parson who holds out to them a 'Petition to Parliament'. They are unconscious, not only that the ground beneath them is mined, but that men (right) are tugging at a rope looped round the steeple, which is about to crash. The rope-pullers are in the foreground (right); at the extreme end is Wellington with his back to the church, straining hard. Next is Peel, wearing an orange waistcoat (cf. British Museum Satires No. 15690) badly stained by the rope; Brougham, a broom-girl dressed as in British Museum Satires No. 14769, is next, with Mackintosh in Highland costume beside him. In front of them is Burdett, very tall and thin, holding up his hat and shouting 'Down with it--never mind the People' [see British Museum Satires No. 16058]. In front is O'Connell, in wig and gown, shouting, 'By St Patrick I've got the Rope over at Last.' Behind these principals are more men, tugging at a second rope. On a green field topping a cliff behind the church-breakers is Eldon wearing a smock and guiding a plough; he turns to shout to the petitioners by the church, who will be crushed by the falling tower: 'Look to your selves People.' Along the horizon (left) is a Papist procession with lighted tapers, the Host, crosses, a grotesque Pope, and figures under a canopy. It approaches St. Paul's whose dome rises above the sky-line. On the extreme right is the Monument (see British Museum satires no. 15688, &c.) in flames."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., and Imprint continues: ... where political & other caricatuers are daily publishing.
Publisher:
Pub. March 19, 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),, Leo XII, Pope, 1760-1829., Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Mackintosh, James, Sir, 1765-1832, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847, and Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838
Subject (Topic):
Catholic emancipation, Churches, Caves, Crowds, Monks, and Vandalism
