print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.11500
- Title
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Object: A metaphorical sketch.
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Series: Political Sketches
- Description
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No. 188. Below the title: 'Dedicated to the Hon'ble; learned & facetious Member for Boro'bridge [Wetherell, see BM Satires No. 16602] by his old friend & admirer HB'. William IV, wearing a smock, stands in a wagon, pitching up trusses to Grey (left) who leans from a small window to receive them. The truss which he holds on his pitchfork, by the rope that encircles it, contains the bulky form of Lord Panmure. Other truss-encircled figures, scarcely differentiated, lie on their backs behind the King, who says, straining hard at his task, 'You may say what you please G—y but I tell you that to pitch up many such trusses as this would be no joke'. Grey: 'Depend upon it, this exercise is very good for the Constitution'. John Bull (left) stands by the cart, looking up at the King; he exclaims 'My Eyes! I never did see such truss pitching before'. 29 March 1832
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1832
- Dimensions
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Height: 367 millimetres
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Width: 275 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- With eye-shaped blindstamp at bottom left, lettered with 'Subscribers copy' and HB's monogram at centre
(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954)
A satire on the creation of peers, see No. 16962, &c. William Ramsay Maule (1771-1852), a Foxite Whig, M.P. for Forfar, cr. Baron Panmure, 9 Sept. 1831, was one of the Coronation peers; his private life had been scandalous; another was the notorious Segrave (Col. Berkeley, see vol. x). See 'Journal of Mrs. Arbuthnot', ii. 429.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.11500
