print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.9320
- Title
- Object: "Ayez pitié d'un pauvre aveugle!!" Have pity on a poor blind man!!
- Description
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Charles X, in civilian dress, with the Cross of the St. Esprit, kneels on the cobble-stones of a street, with closed eyes (he is ruined by his political blindness), holding his cocked hat for alms, a stick in his left hand. Behind him is a street post, behind which a French poodle befouls a paper: 'Ordonnances' [see BM Satires No. 16208]. 1830
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1830
- Dimensions
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Height: 359 millimetres
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Width: 243 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)
A copy (reversed), or perhaps the original, of a French print copied in 'Ménagerie Royale, A Collection of Twenty-four Caricatures which have appeared in Paris since the late Revolution', Pub. Charles Tilt, 86 Fleet Street, 1831, pl. xviii (cf. No. 16838); the dog is absent.
For Charles X as a refugee in England see No. 16235. A similar design to No. 15504; it may be connected with a parody of 'The Beggar's Petition' (cf. No. 13991) in 'Bell's Life in London', 22 Aug. 1830: the first (and last) of eleven verses:
Pity the sorrows of a crack-brain'd King,
Whom Yankee ship hath wafted to your shores—
A poor degraded, despicable thing,
Kick'd by his injur'd people out of doors.
Tilt's series, Grand-Carteret, 'France', p. 195. Small copy of the original (by Philipon; Milan, No. 6130), Fuchs, p. 810.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.9320