print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.9254
- Title
- Object: The city don-key or raw head and bloody bones
- Description
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Above the design: '"A soldier—and afraid. for shame—There never was such times'. A donkey (left) in a furred gown and a tall conical cap trimmed with bells, 'Keys patent foolscap', approaches Peel and Wellington on its hind legs. It brays: 'They mean to eat you—Cut off your Heads and put them upon Temple Bar'. Wellington (right), sitting at a table on which are writing materials, starts in violent terror; he says: 'You dont say So, what a diabolical plot Eat a Prime Minister did you ever hear any thing half so horrid Robert'. Peel stands by the table, astonished and alarmed. Nov 12 1830
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1830
- Dimensions
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Height: 259 millimetres
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Width: 372 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', XI, 1954)
See No. 16303, &c. Key was a wholesale stationer, Master of the Stationers' Company in 1830.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.9254
