print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.12916
- Title
- Object: Cockney Laureate Elected
- Description
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Two names are engraved below the design. A procession of radicals approaches the west front of St. Paul's, headed by Waddy who marches hat in hand, holding up a placard on a pole: This day in green garden yard | The sovereign people will elect their Bard. He is preceded by a boy blowing a trumpet. Behind him a man has been thrown to the cobbles by a kicking donkey; he is Benty [Bentham], his hand on an open book: Church of Englandism ['and its Catechism examined', by Bentham, 1817]. Three well-mounted men follow: the leader has a book or paper inscribed Pattern in his pocket (? indicating Place, the tailor). Next is Joseph Hume, identified by Hume History of. . in his pocket. The last is (?) Burdett. All wear top-hats and are poorly characterized. On the right a man without a hat [? Leigh Hunt] stands full-face, shouting; he holds out an open book: Florence Garden. A few pedestrians watch from the pavements. There is a background of houses, with two draper's shop-fronts behind the riders.
1821?
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1821 (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 228 millimetres
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Width: 339 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', X, 1952)
The date is uncertain and the subject is obscure. Seemingly, the discordant personalities and aims of Radical leaders are satirized, and they are ridiculed by association with the humble and dwarfish Waddington, see Nos. 13273, 14122, 14193.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1998 Sep-Dec, London, UCL Strang Print Room, 'Jeremy Bentham'
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.12916
