drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1854,0513.340
- Title
- Object: The Monument of Broad Bottom
- Description
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One of two drawings catalogued as BM Satires 10724. See also related drawing 1854,0513.319 (49 in BM album).
Two sketches, one in pen, one (rudimentary) in pencil for a caricature, the latter endorsed with a description: 'Ld Grenville lying on a bier supported by Howick & Wyndham who stand on the broad bottoms of Ld Buckingham & Temple. Above Ld St Vincent as Truth [cf. BMSat 10416], & Ld Ellenborough as justice the sword in the scale [cf. BMSat 10563]: below on the steps sit weeping Sheridan as Temperance [cf. BMSat 11214] Lauderdale as Loyalty [cf. BMSat 10738, &c] Tierney as Constancy [cf. BMSat 9844, &c.]. Romilly as Charity Erskine Humility [cf. BMSat 9246]. The Epitaph
'Here all the Virtues round this tomb are crying
When all the Talents still continue dying'
Under which the door of ye Treasury - over it 'Templa quam dilecta' [the Grenville motto, cf. BMSat 10748] - In the front on the Steps Ld H Petty blubbering in the character of simplicity. The summit of the pyramid surmounted with a Cross.' April 1803
Graphite
- Production date
- 1780-1810
- Dimensions
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Height: 319 millimetres
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Width: 196 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)
The pen-drawing is as described with the addition of a 'Stake' (in the country) projecting vertically from the paunch of the prostrate Grenville, cf. BMSat 10721, &c. Below: 'Monument proposed to be Erected to ye memory of Broad Bottom in ye Kings Road' (cf. BMSat 10530), and (scored through) 'Subscriptions recd by J Willis MD Munro MD' (specialists in lunacy).
See BMSat 10709, &c.
Pen-drawing:
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1854
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1854,0513.340
