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Object Type: drawing
Museum number: 1868,0808.12927
Description: A political lecture on heads, copy after a satirical print and title-page for a verse-satire based on Stevens' popular lecture; Wooler, caricatured as the Black Dwarf, stands on a triple head comprising those of the Prince Regent, Sidmouth and Castlereagh, on the dwarf's head are two books, an ink-pot and pen, in his left hand he holds a pair of dividers, in the other an open book. c.1820 Pen and black ink
Producer name: After: George Cruikshank
School/style: British
Production date: 1820
Materials: paper
Technique: drawn
Dimensions: Height: 158 millimetres; Width: 117 millimetres
Curator's comments: Not in Binyon. Copy after BM Sat 13564; woodcut printed for J Johnston, 1820. See also BM Sat 12988 for a reference to the Black Dwarf. For the pamphlet, see 1865,1111.676-699. 184.a.4/6. Bound as part of 'Political Tracts Volume 4.' For similar drawings after Cruikshank prints, see 1868, 0808.12925-12941 and 12947
Bibliographic references: BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (13564) (copy after)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; politics
Associated names: Portrait of: Thomas Jonathan Wooler; Portrait of: Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth; Portrait of: Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh and 2nd Marquess of Londonderry; Portrait of: George IV, King of the United Kingdom (?); Associated with: Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh and 2nd Marquess of Londonderry; Associated with: George IV, King of the United Kingdom; Associated with: Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth; Associated with: Thomas Jonathan Wooler
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Edward Hawkins (estate of)
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0808.12927

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