print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1868,0808.10393
Title: Object: Political march of intellect; Object: A kick at the broad-bottoms! - ie. emancipation of "all the talents &c. Vide the fate of the Catholic Bill.
Description: Two designs, one above the other, the upper, a copy (10709 D) of No. 10709, having a separate title and imprint: A Kick at the Broad Bottoms!- i.e. Emancipation of "All the Talents, &c. Vide the Fate of the Catholic Bill" In the contrasted scene of 1829 George IV rises from the throne, his head hidden by a pillar, as in No. 10709, not, like his father, to kick out his 'Catholic' Ministers, but to embrace the Pope, whose head also is concealed. Beside the throne, at the King's left hand, sits Lady Conyngham; she says: "Arise & meet his Holiness, bend thy knee and worship him". The obedient King says : "Welcome to my heart most holy and Christian Pontiff - to thee I humbly bow and bend - Oh! grant me absolution, and may our meeting prove a blessing to my beloved but long oppressed subjects". The Pope's robe is held up by six men. First, Wellington (in a Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown, see No. 15499) and Peel; next, Lyndhurst and Brougham, both in wig and gown, last, O'Connell also in wig and gown and a thin long-nosed man (? a Jew, cf. No. 15770). On the cushion at the right of the throne rests the Catholic Bill in place of the Bible and crown of No. 10709, which, with the sceptre, lie on the ground, symbols of the alleged overthrow of the Constitution (cf. No. 15707, &c). Hand-coloured etching
Producer name: Print made by: John Phillips; After: James Gillray; Published by: George Humphrey; Published by: Hannah Humphrey
School/style
Production date: 1829 (full plate); 1807 (upper design)
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 451 millimetres; Width: 324 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: (Description and Comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954) For Lady Conyngham and Catholic Emancipation cf. No. 15716. For "The March of Intellect" see No. 15604, &c.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Associated with: Sir Robert Adair; Associated with: Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth; Associated with: George Nugent Temple Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham; Associated with: Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough; Associated with: Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine; Associated with: Right Hon Richard Fitzpatrick; Associated with: George III, King of the United Kingdom; Associated with: William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville; Associated with: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey; Associated with: James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale; Associated with: Napoléon I, Emperor of the French; Associated with: Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne; Associated with: Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Associated with: William Windham; Associated with: Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux; Associated with: Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness Conyngham; Associated with: George IV, King of the United Kingdom; Associated with: Francis Rawdon Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings and 2nd Earl of Moira; Associated with: John Singleton Copley, Baron Lyndhurst; Associated with: Daniel O'Connell; Associated with: Sir Robert Peel; Associated with: Pope Pius VIII; Associated with: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington; Associated with: Richard Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0808.10393

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