print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.7535
- Title
- Object: The true Ellenborough ale or a patent mash tub for the brewers!
- Description
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Ellenborough, C.J., in wig and gown, stands with a stern expression beside a huge mash-tub on low trestles; his left arm is held out towards a crowd of cheering people who advance from the r. In his right. hand is a banner inscribed: 'The Brewrs [sic] Test. Pure Malt and Hops no Adulteration in any Stage "come on down & swear"'. He tramples on a satchel from which project papers inscribed 'Oppium', 'French Berries', and 'Arsnick'. Two dejected men walk off in the background (l.), saying, "This comes of Adulteration" and "Ill never sell any more Druggs to the Brewer again I warrant". The foremost of the crowd, an artisan wearing an apron, holds out his hat, shouting, "God Bless your honor now we shall have pure malt and Hops." Others, one a woman with a child, shout: "Fine them over again the Dogs work them again - Boil them over again give them a Cooler", and "Huzza no poison no French Berrys - no Foreign Mixture." 11 March 1807
Etching
- Production date
- 1807
- Dimensions
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Height: 247 millimetres
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Width: 347 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', VIII, 1947)
See BMSat 10795. The case is not in East's 'Term Reports', K.B. 42 George III, c. 33, imposed penalties on mixing with beer vitriol, quassia, coculus indica, grains of paradise, &c.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.7535