print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.8647
- Title
- Object: Colonel Fitz-Bastard, of hunting & boxing notoriety, (aided by two others) ferociously attacking an unarmed gentleman, at his own residence with the but-end of a horse-whip
- Description
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Col. Berkeley stands over a kneeling man, savagely thrashing him with a horse-whip; with him are two young men; one (left) says: I'll hold the door fast! The other stands with his back to the fireplace, saying, And I'll guard the poker & Tongs. All three wear top-hats. The victim, in dressing-gown and slippers, has been dragged from his writing-table; his chair is overturned. His forehead is cut and bleeding; he cries: At the office, Sir I'll give you satisfaction—Murder! Help! Help! Berkeley answers: No, Sir—; Now, Sir—Now, Sir—Now. Sir! Under his foot is a newspaper, Cheltnam Journal. His two friends are identified as Hammond and 'Lord Lennox' (? Lord Sussex Lennox). In the upper margin: All Respectable Ladies shun him—and Real Gentlemen send him to Coventry. March 1825
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1825
- Dimensions
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Height: 247 millimetres
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Width: 350 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)
Judges, editor of the Cheltenham Journal, was attacked by Berkeley, whose conduct in relation to Maria Foote (see No. 14711, &c.) and Mrs. Waterson (see No. 14274, &c.) had occasioned severe Press comment. See Nos. 14869, 15056. Cf. No. 14556.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.8647
