- Museum number
- 1868,0808.12292
- Title
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Object: Fashion - No. 1
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Object: June 1st.
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Object: Fashion - No 2
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Object: The discovery or ambiguity defeated
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Object: "Be Sir Robert - be my lord. be what thou wilt
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Object: The horticultural fate of 1830
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Object: More emigration from Ireland
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Object: Nuisances of London - 2nd.
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Object: An extinguisher for the Grecian affair
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Object: A sketch for the new sign board to be placed on the head Inn instead of the George Rex
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Object: Lady- W-
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Object: Daring & impudent robbery.
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Object: Ah Master Lobster evry dog has his day
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Object: Aldermen eating white bait.
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Object: March of education - No. 1 - to be continued
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Object: This profanation is shocking -
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Object: The way to pay the national debt - fudge
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Object: Nuisances of London - the deluge - No 1 to be continued
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Series: The Looking Glass No. 6.
- Description
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Etched caricature magazine of four pages on two leaves, in the form of a (monthly) newspaper; illustrations as follows. 1 June 1830
Page 1.
FASHION - NO. 1 (16489)
A dandy, wearing breeches and top-boots, stands full-face with his hands behind him, holding a tall tasselled cane. His legs are wide apart: dress and pose exaggerate his knock-kneed spindle-shanks. Below: 'I do like to see a fellow well set on his pins.'
JUNE 1ST.
A large but squat, flouncily dressed woman, with large bonnet, basket and handkerchief, standing beneath a sign pointing to London; she remarks 'It's precious hot - I can tell you'; flies swarm by her head. (Not described by George.)
FASHION - NO 2 (16490)
A woman, holding up a parasol and wearing a wind-swept calf-length skirt stands by the sea. Below: 'Suppose I do show my Leg they are no disgrace to me'.'
THE DISCOVERY OR AMBIGUITY DEFEATED (16124)
A countryman and his wife discuss the 'Bulletin' of the King's health across a round table on which are jug and glass. She, holding the paper, says: 'Lork John what simpletons the London folks be—not to understand the Bulletins— why his M-----y God bless him, has got the Symptoms—I dare say it is some new fashioned disorder'. He: 'I dare say it be'. See No. 16107, &c.
"BE SIR ROBERT - BE MY LORD. BE WHAT THOU WILT (16125)
Peel, half-length, leans to the left, holding up a baron's coronet at which he gazes. In his left arm is crooked an antique helmet. A shower of coins descends upon him. Above: '"Money—money—money—is your friend'. Cf. Nos. 16116, 17068.
THE HORTICULTURAL FATE OF 1830 (16491)
A man (right), wearing an apron over quasi-fashionable dress, stands behind a cloth-covered table on which vegetables are displayed. He holds up a bunch of onions to a dustman and a small ragged boy with a basket, who say: 'I vonts a pound o' Taters', and 'Wot do you ax for them ere Ingens'. On a notice-board framed in vegetables: 'Carrots & Turnips on sale by order of the Council'. A high wall is placarded 'Rotten Dung Sold' and 'Cheap Cabbages'. (A punning title: the Fête was a fashionable affair, see No. 15955. The sale of exhibits seems to be derided.)
MORE EMIGRATION FROM IRELAND (16126)
A fat John Bull opens a toll-gate (right) for a herd of fat pigs, saying to the ragged Irish drover: 'What, more Pigs Pat why these make 14500—this year—you will soon get rid of all your Hogs'. Pat (left) answers: 'And thats the only way we have left to save our Bacon'. In the background are more pigs and another drover in violent action. For Irish distress cf. Nos. 16019, 16057, ï6726, 16754.
Page 2.
NUSIANCES OF LONDON - 2ND. (16492)
Two smartly dressed footmen, one a black man, lounge against a shop-front. The white man's feet stretch to the curb, so that a passing lady is forced to lift her petticoat and step over them. Below: 'Flunkeys indulging themselves at the Drapers Door A Fact'. Cf. No. 16497.
AN EXTINGUISHER FOR THE GRECIAN AFFAIR (16127)
Prince Leopold, in uniform with cavalry boots and holding his plumed cocked hat under his left arm, drops a big 'Safety' extinguisher, inscribed '£50.000' on a misshapen candle inscribed 'Greece'. This emits clouds of 'Smoke' and is poised on a royal crown which stands precariously on the teeth of a harrow. Above the design: 'He hath a Wisdom that doth guide his valour—to act in Safety—Shak—' ['Macbeth', III. i]. Leopold's formal refusal of the crown of Greece was on 21 May, see No. 16010, &c. The £50,000 is the income settled on him on his marriage to Princess Charlotte, see Nos. 12754, 16135, 16635, 16703, 16742. On depart¬ing for Belgium he consigned this annuity to trustees for his debts, pensions, and the upkeep of Claremont, the residue to the Exchequer. Greville, Memoirs, 1938, ii. 169.
A SKETCH FOR THE NEW SIGN BOARD... (16128)
A stumpy post supports a board, on which is a group of a plumed cocked hat (Wellington's), the Chancellor's wig, a bishop's wig and hat, and a large pen. Below: 'Signs must resemble the things they Signify'.
For the Sign Manual Bill see No. 16122, &c. Seven persons were authorized to attest documents (three at least to affix their signatures): the Chancellor, Lord President of the Council, Lord Privy Seal, First Lord of the Treasury, and the three Secretaries of State (depicted in No. 16133).
LADY- W- (16494)
Scene in a wood. Lord William Lennox (left), in Life Guards uniform, retreats to the left, arms extended, looking over his shoulder at his wife, who makes a gesture of dismissal, saying, 'Go naughty man I can't abide you'. He steps over a paper, 'Wood Deamon' [by 'Monk' Lewis, see No. 10796]. She is in evening dress. The title is flanked by B flat (under Lord William) and B sharp (under the lady), in musical notation. Below: 'I'll seek protection in this [Wood]'. See No. 16420, &c. 'W------' is a conventional and insulting abbreviation.
DARING & IMPUDENT ROBBERY. (16493)
An old soldier, seemingly a Chelsea pensioner, a patch over one eye, reclining against a tree, wakes to find a ragged (?) Irishman running off with his wooden legs, which he has hacked off with an axe. The thief wears the soldier's cocked hat and carries his coat; the helpless victim threatens him with his fist.
AH MASTER LOBSTER EVRY DOG HAS HIS DAY (16129)
An anchor stands on the shore on its fluke, supporting a large royal crown. Wellington, as a private of the Grenadier Guards, with knapsack and a bundle slung from his musket, hurries off to the left, after departing and shadowy soldiers. A tough-looking sailor (not resembling the Duke of Clarence) watches him. An anticipation of the King's death and of Wellington's consequent dismissal, based on the Duke's dismissal of Clarence in 1828, see Nos. 15546, &c, 16342. For 'lobster' cf. No. 15500. See No. 15911; cf. Nos. 16133,16149, &c.
Page 3.
ALDERMEN EATING WHITE BAIT. (16495)
Two guzzling aldermen, their plates piled high, one with the table-cloth tucked under his chin. The more prominent (left) puts two tiny fish speared on his fork into his cavernous mouth, the other shovels them in with a spoon. Above: 'He that despiseth little things—shall perish by little & little'. For white¬bait cf. No. 16151.
MARCH OF EDUCATION - NO. 1 (16496)
A little boy, in a neat charity-school uniform with a badge on his coat, stands holding a book. An old village woman, resting on a stick, asks: 'Well little Boy - have you been Confirmed?' Boy: 'No. Marm I wos waccinated'. Behind is a church. For the title cf. No. 15604, &c.
THIS PROFANATION IS SHOCKING - (16130)
Blomfield, Bishop of London, while stepping into his carriage, turns to address Sabbath-breakers (right): a pot-boy with full tankards, a seedy-looking man carrying his Sunday dinner from the baker's (a leg of mutton on potatoes), a fishwife crying her wares. The title (the bishop's words) continues: 'do I do such things on the Sabbath?' He is in his surplice; his coach stands at a pillared portico, a bloated and torpid coachman holds the reins of four horses (left), one smart footman holds open the door, another stands behind the carriage. A fat carriage-dog (a Dalmatian) looks with supercilious hostility at the Sabbath-breakers. On the right is the corner of a house on which is a large hatchment; a lady is seen through a window at a piano; on the house is a bill: 'Lady------Musical Party'. On a house in the background are two bills headed 'Life in London' and 'Age' [Sunday papers].
Page 4.
THE WAY TO PAY THE NATIONAL DEBT - FUDGE (16131)
Goulburn (left), in his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown, leans from his chair to address a startled citizen (right) in old-fashioned dress, with a pigtail, who stands hat in hand. He says, forefinger extended: 'Now you see the case stands thus—we borrow money of you (without any intention of repaying it—) but agree to allow five pr Cent interest not being in a situation to pay five now—we intend to give you three—consequently that will be so much of your Principal paid off— thus we shall go on reducing the Interest untill it comes to Nothing and then you know if we have nothing to pay to you we cannot possibly owe you anything— now you see the thing in quite a new light'. The horrified victim answers 'Quite'.
NUSIANCES OF LONDON - THE DELUGE - NO 1 (16497)
Two watering-carts flood the roadway, ankle deep. A lady is wading; fashionably dressed pedestrians on the pavement are heavily splashed. A shop inscribed 'Shower Bath' is 'To Let'. Below: '"The flood restrain—Their moisture has already drench'd the plain------vide Dryden'. Cf. Nos. 14289, &c., 16492.
- Production date
- 1830
- Dimensions
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Height: 375 millimetres
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Width: 263 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Notes to No. 16130:
An illustration of the unpopularity of bishops whose large incomes were widely publicized on hand-bills, see J. R. M. Butler, The Passing of the Great Reform Bill, 1914, pp. 113, 251. Cf. No, 16805, &c. For Blomfield see No. 15435; for Sunday observance cf. Nos. 9404 (1799), 14815 (1825), 16200.
Notes to No. 16131:
Apparently an echo of the debate in the Lords on the National Debt on 6 May in which Goderich (disputing the contention that its burden was crushing) said that there was no such thing as 'a capital of the Debt' in the ordinary sense: the public creditor could never claim repayment, but only the payment of an annuity. The 5 per cents, had been reduced to 4, then the 4 per cents, to 3 1/2; This reduction in the burden of the debt was 'an.equitable adjustment' in view of the restoration of the currency (see No. 16013, &c). Parl. Deb., N.s. xxiv. 428 ff. ; Smart, Econ. Annals of the Nineteenth Century, ii. 556.
Bound in a volume ("The Looking Glass, Vol. I") containing nos. 1 to 12 for 1830. Vols. I to VII (1830 to 1836) are kept at 298.d.12 to 18.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.12292
