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The city address

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“The King, plainly dressed in black, tries to hide, ostrich-like, from the two Sheriffs of London, who kneel before him, holding their wands of office. The foremost, on both knees, his hand on his heart, says: We are deputed by the Corporation to wait upon your M—-ty most humbly to know when it will be convenient to receive the dutiful address of your M—-tys ancient and loyal City of London. The second sheriff, less obsequious, says: The Citizens are suprised at yr M—-tys Backwardness, the Corporation looks blue, and the Lord Mayor is in a Brown Study. The King, poised on his toes, stoops over the throne, a plain arm-chair, as if to take cover, looking behind him from the corners of his averted eyes. He says: I’m not at home. An elderly Lord Chamberlain, also in black, leans forward on tiptoe, supporting himself on the back of the throne, one arm held out above the King’s bent back with a gesture of negation to the Sheriffs and protection to the King, saying, He say’s “he’s not at home! The title is centred by two heraldic turtles and the City’s motto: Domini Direge Nos [sic]..”–British Museum online catalogue

  • Printmaker: Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, printmaker.
  • Title: The city address [graphic] / H. Heath.
  • Publication: [London] : Pubd. June 22, 1827, at 26 Haymarket, [22 June 1827]

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827.06.22.01+

Acquired June 2024

Bags out of place, or, A new administration

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“Scene in a bedroom, meanly furnished except for a four-post curtained bed (left) and a carpeted floor; it is lit by a single candle or rush-light. Lady Eldon (right), a lean and ugly virago, assails the ex-Chancellor with a shovel, holding him by the coat. He tries to escape, shrieking, I cou’dn’t in conscience my love, act with them–why, they are all in league with the Devil. Lady Eldon: Conscience, indeed! I’ll conscience you! Aye, aye, Sir, you don’t know your friends from your foes. I’ll make you learn to keep a good place when you’ve got one; you shan’t be idling at home earning nothing. What business is it of your’s who’s who as long as you have got a good place and are well paid for it. Under the bed is a box of Smuggled Goods. On the wall is a picture: Taking leave of the Court of Conscience. In this Eldon leans from a desk holding a handkerchief towards his eyes, facing a group of standing barristers. On the floor is a book: Rule a Husband and have a Husband [parodying the title of Fletcher’s comedy, ‘Rule a wife …].”–British Museum online catalogue

  • Printmaker: Phillips, John, active 1825-1831, printmaker.
  • Title: Bags out of place, or, A new administration [graphic] / Phillips fect.
  • Publication: [London] : Published by E. King, Chancery Lane, [approximately April 1827]

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827.04.00.03+

Acquired June 2024

W.A.R a masque

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“William IV, as Mars, in Roman armour, stands defiantly in a war-chariot drawn by three galloping horses, ridden by Discord, a virago with serpents for hair, who brandishes a handful of serpents. He holds a shield inscribed ‘Signed Protocols’, and a levelled spear; on his helmet is a dragon with gaping jaws. The chariot advances upon terrified Dutch soldiers (left), who flee; one drops his musket, but one on the extreme left (William I) stands firm beside the muzzle of a cannon and glares at the King with an obstinate scowl. They have high-crowned hats, with a ribbon inscribed ‘Orange’. Facing the chariot-horses (left) are a menacing Russian bear and a Prussian Death’s Head hussar with a levelled blunderbuss. Discord, looking sideways at the Prussian though turning away from him, says: ‘A word in your Ear! there’s nothing meant, its all show just to frighten these Dutchmen a little’. Under the chariot is a document inscribed ‘Treatys’; the wheel is about to collide with a large stone inscribed ‘Ireland’, on which the features of O’Connell are faintly suggested. Behind the chariot are three Furies, with serpents for hair, and holding firebrands and bunches of serpents. Rushing forward, they urge the King on; they are (left to right) Grey, Durham, and Brougham. As a background to the chariot a swarm of countless frogs (French soldiers) is dimly suggested; they rush forward, with a tricolour flag. On the front of the chariot perches a Gallic cock. In the foreground (right) stands John Bull, stout and spectacled; he clutches his ‘Reform Bill’, and gapes up in horror, saying, ‘Hey dey here’s a bobbery, just as I was going to look over my Reform Bill quietly, what do they mean not to go to war sure now,!! after suffering Poland to be annihilated & Germany trampled on, Oh nonsense! Nonsense’.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker.
  • Title: W.A.R [graphic] : a masque.
  • Publication: [London] : [T. McLean], [1 November 1832]

Catalog Record

832.11.01.01+

Acquired June 2024

Riding a roebuck

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“A fashionably dressed man rides a stag with the head and bust of a pretty young woman with dark ringlets and roses in her hair. A lean German runs after him, holding out a pair of large antlers, saying, O, ho! my-lor, here de Horn my-lor–she friget [sic] de horn, take dem, A, ha! par-blue, by Gar I vil have de damage. The rider, turning his head in profile, and warding off the gift, answers: No. No. Baron, you may keep them yourself, and welcome, the horns become you; my dear can do without them. The German wears flat fur cap with peak, tight fur-bordered coat. The other wears bell-shaped top-hat, blue frogged coat, and white trousers. His rein is a scarf inscribed £2,500 round his mount’s chest. The animal, its hind-legs splashing the German with mud, reaches a high wall fringed with spikes, inscribed Bancus Regis, resembling that of the King’s Bench prison, but here indicating the Court of King’s Bench. On it, below a large inscription: Hunts Matchless Blacking [see British Museum Satires No. 15150] are many bills: [1] Coy of Sussex stolen or strayed a handsome Doe of the Roebuck breed, with black hair and scut, is supposed to be stolen by some poacher. Her owner a poor foreigner says her value is £10.000–. [2] Just Published–Crim Cram. [3] The Prodigal a New farce. [4] –Theatre, Chip of the Old Block or the Amours of one of the Peers. [5] Richmond Steam Boat the Venus with excellent accomodation & a high Poop:– 16 Horse power. [6] Astley’s, The Dejected Baron after which Mr Ducrow will manage His Celebrated Horse Pegassus. [7] Try Dr Eady [a notorious quack]. [8] Sermons By the Revd Mr Irvine. [9] Just Published, A Moral Lesson, or the Horn Book for the rising generation by a young lady.”–British Museum online catalogue.
“A satire on the suit of crim. con. brought by Michael Henry, Baron de Robeck, against Lord Sussex Lennox (1802-74). His wife, Mary Margaret, 2nd d. of Valentine Browne (who had married him in 1820 when under fifteen), married Lennox, Apr. 1828, on the dissolution of her first marriage.”–Curator’s comments, British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker.
  • Title: Riding a roebuck [graphic] / Don Juan fecit.
  • Publication: [London] : Pubd. July 1827 for the auther [sic], 26 Haymarket, London, [July 1827]

Catalog Record

827.07.00.03+

Acquired June 2024

Half seas over, alias, The hopes of the family

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“The Duke of York stands astride a piece of water, his left foot planted on Germany, his right foot on England. He is dressed half as a bishop (left), half as a military officer (right), his person bisected by a vertical line. His mitre is poised over his right temple; the right half of his person (the spectator’s left) wears a lawn sleeve and black gown, but in his right hand is an uplifted sword. The other half wears regimentals with half a cocked hat, but in his left hand is a crozier. Labels issue from his mouth to left and right: ‘A sett of infamous Blood-thirsty Rascaly Sans Culottes, given to D-D Drunkenness, Gaming & all kinds of Debauchery’ (and) ‘I will extirpate thee from the face of the Earth! Without the least spark of Religion. B——t them, I,ll order those fellows of Officers to cut them to pieces instantly, they shall soon know who they have t-t-to deal with.’.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker.
  • Title: Half seas over, alias, The hopes of the family [graphic] / I.C.
  • Publication: London : Pub. March 7, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly …, [7 March 1794]

Catalog Record

794.03.07.01+ Impression 2

Acquired June 2024

Cossacks, flying to annoy vide Buonaparte’s 28th bulletin

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Three Cossacks on horseback pretend to flee from French soldiers. See British Museum online catalogue

  • Title: Cossacks, flying to annoy [graphic] : vide Buonaparte’s 28th bulletin / T. Kelly.
  • Publication: [London] : Pubd. by J. Sidebotham, Sackville St., [not before 1813]

Catalog Record

813.00.00.26

Acquired June 2024

The Gemman as pays the reglar out-an’-outer

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“A very ragged Irish bog-trotter stands full-face, knees flexed, a shillelagh in the right hand, a shilling in the left palm. Shaggy hair bursts through his small shapeless hat in which is a tobacco-pipe. He stares, with raised eyebrows and a grin. Above his head: ‘Arrah now, be asy, ye devils, be asy! I’m thinking how I shall pay Dan two thirteens out o’ one. Och now! and Dan’s a dear crater!’.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker.
  • Title: The Gemman as pays the reglar out-an’-outer vot drives the hero!! [graphic] / Robt. Cruikshank fecit.
  • Publication: [London] : Pub. May 1829 by G. Treguar [sic], Cheapside, [May 1829]

Catalog Record

829.05.00.10+

Acquired June 2024

A labourer in the good cause

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“Eldon stands with his shirt-sleeves rolled up, carrying a great stack of petitions under each arm. On his head is a porter’s knot made of a pair of green bags (emblem of ‘Old Bags’, see British Museum Satires No. 12883); on this rests a third pile of bulky parchments. Round his right leg is an unfastened garter inscribed ‘. . . d Expects Every Man will do’ [his duty]. He puffs; sweat streams down his forehead; he says: ‘Hard work this–got plenty more to bring down yet–.’ The petitions are inscribed ‘Petition’ [five times]; ‘against Concession’ [twice]; ‘Petition against’; ‘30.000 Inhabitants’; ‘Humbly Sheweth’; ‘Petition against Concession–‘ [twice] ‘3.00 Inhabitants’; ‘4000 of the . . .’; ‘signed by 130.000 Men Women & Children ; 60,000 Respectable Inhabitants’.”–British Museum online catalogue

  • Printmaker: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker.
  • Title: A labourer in the good cause [graphic] / [man with umbrella] Esqr.
  • Publication: [London] : Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, [approximately March 1828]

Catalog Record

828.03.00.01+

Acquired June 2024

See-Dan

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“Burdett (right) and Brougham (left) as chairmen, carry (left to right) a bottomless sedan-chair enclosing O’Connell, who is forced to walk rapidly, looking from the window towards Brougham to say ‘Mighty like a walk this after all’. He wears barrister’s wig and gown. The chair is surmounted by shamrock and is inscribed ‘M.P.’ The chairmen wear livery coats; Burdett is bareheaded, and wears his usual top-boots and breeches; Brougham wears barrister’s wig and bands with a battered hat.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker.
  • Title: See-Dan [graphic] / [man with umbrella] Esqr.
  • Publication: [London] : Pub. May 1829 by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket …, May 1829.

Catalog Record

829.05.00.12+

Acquired June 2024