print;
satirical print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.12977
- Title
- Object: The reformers attack on the old rotten tree...
- Description
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A crude but fairly close copy, not reversed, of BM Satires No. 16650, printed on a broadside from four blocks, with the same title, without underlining. Below the cut are four columns of printed text with a tail-piece, the whole enclosed in a border of woodcut ornament. The inscriptions are simplified e.g., Brougham's axe is 'Reform', Grey's 'Grey Chop'. The only boroughs are 'Corf Castle' (not in BM Satires No. 16650),' Aldborough', 'Bishopscastle', 'East Love' [sic] 'Boroughbridge', 'Old Sarum', 'Saltash'. The text is [1] "A New Dialogue" between John Bull, Farmer Dobbin, and Shopkeeper, anticipating strong beer, cheap coals, and good trade when "Russell's purge" (see BM Satires No. 16602) has mended the "decay'd Old Constitution". "'King William' the true British Sailor" has armed officers with boarding axes. [2] Ten eight-line verses with a refrain of four lines, "Reform! 'A New Red Hot Radical Stave—by Mr. Ford.'" The eighth verse begins:
'The King's a Reformer, that's clear; that's clear;
Which makes him to all Britons dear; Oh! dear;
Old Nosey's a noodle not worthy his care,
Only fitting to carry rank guts to a bear'. c. April 1831
Woodcut with letterpress text
- Production date
- 1831
- Dimensions
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Height: 482 millimetres
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Width: 361 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954)
See No. 16607, &c. Copies in the B.M.L.: Place Coll. Set 17, i. fo. 81, and 1875, d. 8/107.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated names
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Associated with: John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer
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Associated with: Thomas Attwood
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Associated with: Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
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Associated with: Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet
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Associated with: Richard Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
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Associated with: Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough
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Associated with: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
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Associated with: Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne
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Associated with: Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle
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Associated with: Sir Robert Peel
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Associated with: Lord John Russell (later John Russell, 1st Earl Russell of Kingston Russell)
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Associated with: James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger
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Associated with: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
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Associated with: William IV, King of the United Kingdom
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.12977
