print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1851,0901.1269
- Title
- Object: Orange Jumper.
- Description
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An elderly man stands in profile to the right outside a building on which are election placards, holding out his (orange-coloured) hat in which is a favour and a ticket inscribed Milton. He is curiously square, round-shouldered, long-waisted, and bandy-legged, wearing riding-dress with spurred top-boots, and a coat reaching nearly to his heels, with a fox embroidered on the collar. On the wall which forms a background is a placard: State of the Poll. Wilberforce 11808, Milton 11.177, Lascelles 10,990. Other placards are Steele Traps [see No. 10743], No Pretender, No Popery [torn] [cf. No. 10709], No Melville No Plunder. [see No. 10377, &c.] No Slavery [see No. 10778] Milton for Ever. From a narrow board inscribed Etridge on the corner of the wall projects a flagstaff supporting a pennant inscribed Saville in large letters.
6 March 1808.
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1809
- Dimensions
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Height: 280 millimetres
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Width: 210 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', VIII, 1947)
This print is from the design of an amateur, sent to Gillray in a letter dated 16 Feb. 1809: 'Mr Fawkes . . . hopes you will do Him the favor to etch the single figure I enclose—some time next week—Orange Jumper is as well known in Yorkshire as the King of England—He has been a celebrated Horse Breaker 40 years & his boast is—That he has had every bone in his skin broken & that he has been in every jail in England. He was the most conspicuous partisan at Lord Milton's Election—They call him Orange Jumper from Lord M's color ... I never drew a stronger likeness than the face of the coloured figure I enclose.' B.M. Add. MSS. 27,337, fo. 112. The draughtsman wrote on 17 Mar. expressing disgust at the etching: 'the upper part of the face . . . are quite like Him, but the Nose and Mouth are both so much too large & so much caricatured that all the likeness of the Man is entirely destroyed'. He asks for the plate to be destroyed unless the face can be made exactly like the original drawing. Ibid., fo. 118. The numbers of the state of the poll are given as in the print. They are those of the famous Yorkshire election of May-June 1807, when the Fitzwilliams spent £100,000 to secure the return of Milton (1786-1857). See Life of Wilberforce, 1839, iii. 323-37, where the final numbers are given as 11,806, 11,177, 10,989. Sir George Savile (1726-84) was the patron saint of the Yorkshire Whigs, cf. No. 9423.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1851
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1851,0901.1269
