print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.7723
- Title
- Object: Iohn Bull's address to Mrs Clarke on the late conspiracy!!
- Description
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John Bull, a yokel in a smock and holding a cudgel, bows hat in hand to Mrs. Clarke, looking with wary admiration at the pretty woman. He says: "My humble Sarvice to thee Maam—/ be come to talk about some specious business thee hast been engaged in lately—do thee know I & all my Family be specious glad that thee had spirit enough to go thro stitch with it, and they desired I to say that they owe thee Millions & Millions of thanks for blowing up such a Host of conspirators & tho some folks say it was done out of spight, yet I says no, for if a man engages to pay I, Forty Pounds a Year for having taken away my Mare & used her till he be tired of her, then turns her a drift on a wide and bare common and refuses to pay I that sum he agreed to pay why then if I can't Law him I should be obliged to expose his conduct to the World in order that he may not be suffered to take any more Peoples Mares & sarve them the same, & therefore I & my family begs their sarvice to thee most heartily". She answers: "Why honest Mr Bull tho I have been roughly handled on account of my long adherence to Truth, your thanks is a sufficient gratification for all my trouble". A settee stands against the wall, on which (right) hangs a portrait of a ferocious military officer, whose legs, in huge jack-boots, issue from his shoulders to show that he is 'Nobody', cf. No. 5570. His right arm is on the muzzle of a gun; he holds papers headed 'Hors[e Guards]'. A house is indicated in the background: 'Gloster Place' [see No. 11222]. He is 'Ge° Farquhar Esqr' (this portrait and the script appear to be by G. Cruikshank).
24 February 1809
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1809
- Dimensions
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Height: 245 millimetres
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Width: 358 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 No. 11216, &c. Letters from the Duke to Mrs. Clarke, see No. 11228, &c., were often addressed to George Farquhar Esq. 'Ann. Reg.', 1809, p. 128 f. See Nos. 11243, 11248 for the letter dated 24 Aug. 1804, quoted 'Pol. Reg.', 25 Feb. 1809.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.7723
