print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.6.165
- Title
- Object: Triumph of the Established Church
- Description
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A grotesque Pope lying on his back forms the base of the design; his enormous nose projects vertically, and on its tip prances a tiny Devil holding a trident. The Pope forms a platform for a crowd of tiny Britons demonstrating hatred of Popery; one shouts No Popery. On these little figures rest (left) a large turtle and (right) a huge cheese: Wt 160 lbs, stamped with the Royal Arms and inscribed [Protestant Ascend[ancy] Inhabitants of Ches[ter]. The Duke of York, the centre of the design, straddles wide, right foot on the turtle, left on the cheese. Grinning broadly and holding his fat sides, he says: Thanks! good People, our cause has triumphed—with your mighty aid we trample the Enemies of our Church under foot, & make them tame as Turtle Doves!!! Under his right foot is an address: His R[oyal Highness] . . . mous Champion Church & King Oxford. He wears uniform with cocked hat, jack-boots, and sword. In the middle of the crowd and between turtle and cheese is a Chester Oxford ['Protestant' centres] mail-coach, crowded with outside passengers. On the left grotesque Catholics, with long noses like that of the Pope, some being bishops with mitre and crosier, flee in confusion. On the right, imbecile-looking Britons look from two windows of a building at the Duke. Two say: Worthy Testimonials of "Loyalty" and God help him! [an allusion to the closing words of his speech]. Below, a judge, a military officer, and a man with neither forehead nor chin register obsequious approval. June 1825
Hand-coloured lithograph
- Production date
- 1825
- Dimensions
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Height: 262 millimetres
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Width: 393 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', X, 1952)
For the Duke and Emancipation see No. 14768, &c. He acquired much popularity, and Cheshire, through its county members, sent him a 160 lb. cheese. Cf. Praed, 'The Lay of the Cheese', Pol. Poems, 1888, p. 41 ff.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.6.165