"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
Broadbrim's trip to London to overthrow despotism and astonish the natives!!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., In letterpress below image, an excerpt from "The Times" dated Sept. 5., Cf. No. 14234 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.10., and Temporary local subject terms: Quakers -- Mayors: Lord Mayor of London -- House: mansion -- Squires, Charles Wheatfield, fl. 1820 -- Hobbies -- Velocipedes -- Thorpe, John T., Lord Mayor of London , fl. 1820 -- Tri-colored cockades -- Devils.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, 3d Earl, 1762-1834, Penn, William, 1644-1718, and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
