- Museum number
- 1862,1217.556
- Title
- Object: The Manchester heroes.
- Description
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The Manchester Yeomanry ride down women, children, and men, making for a platform (right) in the background, where Hunt stands with three supporters. The foremost points his sabre at a fainting woman with children round her, who is supported by a man; he says "None but the brave deserve the Fair." A little boy, holding his mother's kerchief, exclaims: "Oh pray Sir, doan't Kill Mammy, she only came to see Mr Hunt." Another man rides up furiously, saying, "Cut him [the boy] down, Cut him down." On the left the yeomanry ride forward in close formation. Above them the head of the Regent (poorly characterized) emerges from clouds, supporting the beam of a pair of scales. The heavier scale is inscribed 'Peculators' [Ministers and placemen], the other 'Reformers'. He says: "Cut them down, doan't be afraid, they are not Armed, courage my boys, and you shall have a vote of thanks, & he that Kills most shall be made a Knight errant [cf. No. 12811, &c.] and your exploits shall live for ever, in a Song, or second Chivey Chace." Hunt, hat in hand, exclaims: "Shame, Shame, Murder, Murder, Massacree [sic]." Two others echo "Shame." They have banners, one surmounted by a cap of Liberty.
September 1819.
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1819
- Dimensions
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Height: 250 millimetres
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Width: 350 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949)
See No. 13258, &c. The thanks of the Regent to the Manchester and Cheshire Magistrates and Yeomanry were expressed in a letter from Sidmouth to the Lord-Lieutenants of the two counties. Text, 'Ann. Reg.' (Chron.), p. 125. Cf. No. 13280.
Reid, No. 915.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2018 12 Jan-11 Mar, BM, 90a, Pots with attitude: British satire on ceramics
2022-2023, 11 Oct - 8 Jan, Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Currencies of conflict and dissent
- Acquisition date
- 1862
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1862,1217.556