print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.9019
- Title
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Object: One of the poor employed to mind the high ways.
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Series: Parish characters
- Description
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See No. 15785. Brougham, wearing a barrister's wig, with rolled-up shirt¬sleeves, short dilapidated trousers, and tucked-up apron, stands with flexed knees in profile to the right, mopping his dripping face. He holds a long hammer in his right hand, resting on the top of a heap of stones, which he is breaking, one being inscribed 'Reform'. Between his feet lies a clumsy broom. Above: 'This is poor work—after all I see you are tired of it Frank—besides we have not improved the High Ways a bit—getting very hungry could swallow a whole batch of ROLLS'. 1 June 1829
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1829
- Dimensions
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Height: 358 millimetres
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Width: 263 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954)
Brougham expresses (to Sir F. Burdett, cf. No. 16058) disgust that their support of the Ministry over Emancipation has brought no reward, and his anxiety for the place of Master of the Rolls. Cf. No. 15416; see Nos. 15431, &c., 15821, 15837, 15844, 15899, 16051, 16159. Copied in No. 15830.†.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.9019