print;
satirical print;
newspaper/periodical;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1870,1008.1470.1-2
- Title
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Object: Portraits of the political Burkers?
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Series: Figaro in London
- Description
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Vol. 1; No. 3; a letterpress paper consisting of four pages, headed with wood-engraved vignette and illustrated with second cut on the first page. 24 December 1831
(1) vignette heading (BM Satires 16830), for description see 1870,1008.1468;
(2) PORTRAITS OF THE POLITICAL BURKERS?
Half-length portraits of Cumberland and a bishop dejectedly standing together (as in a criminal court)at the bar of 'Public Opinion'. Illustration of a squib in No. 1: 'In consequence of recent events, the Burking system has lately acquired the appellation of the Bishoping system. We wonder which of the two is held in greater abhorrence by the public - a Burke or a Bishop!'
- Production date
- 1831
- Dimensions
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Height: 286 millimetres (approx. page size)
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Width: 220 millimetres (approx. page size)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Notes to No. 16833:
A satire on the defeat of the Second Reform Bill largely by the bishops' votes, see No. 16805, &c. One Bishop, like Burke, was convicted of murder in order to sell bodies for dissection, see No. 16914; for other 'Burkers' cf. Nos. 15707, &c., 16920.
In a bound volume containing "Figaro in London" Vols. I and II (1832-1833). Subsequent volumes (III, IV, V, VI and VII) are kept at 298*.a.20 to 22. For group record for Vols. I to VI see 1870,1008.1467-1937. Vol. VII is registered separately as 1982,U.4511.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Figaro in London
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1870,1008.1470.1-2