"Sheet of satirical vignettes; at centre, 'Going to the Pole-Booth-ia', a man in furs confronted by a polar bear. Around the central design: 'First reading', a woman instructing a child in its ABC; 'Home department', a guard in bearskin; 'Usher of the black rod', a demon; 'Passing a bill', two shopkeepers scrutinising a bill presented by a dandy; 'Opponents in the field', a duel; 'A representative', boys with a guy on a stretcher; 'Proposing an amendment', the same woman about to beat the child with a bundle of twigs; 'Foreign affairs', a man with native American accoutrements but wearing western dress, offering to scalp an officer with a razor; 'Mastr. Genl. of the Ordnance', an animated cannon with skeletal limbs and a bomb for a tail; 'Master of the horse', a man driving a cart at speed, on which a dead horse is laid."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text above images., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eleven designs on one plate, each individually titled., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Duels -- Guns: Pistols -- Beefeaters -- Reference to North Pole -- Male costume: Fur hooded coat -- American Indians -- Banks -- Popery -- Emblems: Pope's triple crown -- Horses., and Numbered in manuscript at top of sheet: 109.
Publisher:
Pub. by G.S. Tregear at his sporting & comic print warehouse, 96 Cheapside
"A procession headed by John Ross extends from the coast (right), where Esquimaux dogs swim ashore from a boat, to the gate of the British Museum, part of which is on the extreme left ..." (Source: British Museum catalogue). Print shows items brought from Captain John Ross' expedition to Baffin Bay being delivered to the British Museum
Alternative Title:
Results of the polar expedition!!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using Frederick Marryat's device: An anchor tilted diagonally., and Backed with blue paper, removed from an album?
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 18, 1819, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Ross, John, Sir, 1777-1856, Ross, James Clark, Sir, 1800-1862, Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788-1883, Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820, Leach, William Elford, 1790-1836, and British Museum
