print;
satirical print;
newspaper/periodical;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1870,1008.1501.1-2
- Title
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Object: The Russian stalking bear.
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Series: Figaro in London
- Description
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Vol. 1; No. 34; a letterpress paper, consisting of four pages, headed with wood-engraved vignette and illustrated with further cut on the first page. 28 July 1832
(1) vignette heading (BM Satires 16830), for description see 1870,1008.1468;
(2) THE RUSSIAN STALKING BEAR.
A bear lumbers downhill with a great bone in its mouth: 'A Boneus [fo]r Russia'. Sheltering behind it (right) are three Tories: Peel and Wetherell, their guns resting on its back, firing at two eagles on adjacent rocks, one with the head of Brougham, the other with that of Grey. Wetherell has a strap inscribed 'Russian Bonds' across his shoulder, and kneels on a bird with the head of (?) Hume. Goulburn prepares to fire.
- Production date
- 1832
- 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
- On 16 July the question of the liability of Britain to continue the interest on the Russian loan after the severance of Holland from Belgium was again raised. A motion by the Opposition condemning the policy of payment was defeated. Hume declared that 'he voted against the Tories with the Whigs, though he had no doubt the Whigs were in the wrong'. Parl. Deb., 3rd s. xiv. 428 ff. See No. 16948, &c.
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
- 1870,1008.1501.1-2
