print;
satirical print;
book-illustration;
book
- Museum number
- 1872,1012.729
- Title
- Object: Kings College versus London University
- Description
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See No. 15559. P. 10. Below the title: 'or Which is the Weightiest'. A plank (see-saw) rests on the back of a John Bull with a padlocked mouth (cf. Nos. 13287, &c, 13504), who is on hands and knees on a rectangular pedestal. On the upper end (left) are the protagonists of the University of London (University Coll.); on the lower end (right) are three fat bishops and a bottle-nosed parson who exultingly outweigh their five opponents, unconscious that they are about to fall into the pit of Hell. The Devil, outlined against flames and smoke, points gleefully to the big bag of 'Money and Interest' which is hooked on to the end of the plank, weighing it down. One bishop shouts 'King's Col For Ever Huzza'; another waves his mitre and wig. The foremost uses his crosier to menace Brougham, the leader of the Gower-street band, who brandishes a broom. Bentham (see No. 14261), in a long dressing-gown, is on the plank towering above the others, with a pile of books on his head, which are falling or about to fall. Of the other three one resembles Burdett, another who is falling headfirst from the end of the plank may be Hume. 1828
Hand-coloured lithograph
- Production date
- 1828
- Dimensions
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Height: 216 millimetres (approx. page size)
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Width: 139 millimetres (approx. page size)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954)
(Supplementary information)
Bound with "First Book for the Instruction of Students in the King's College". See 1872,1012.722 to 725.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Second book. Lectures and Examinations for Kings College Students
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1872,1012.729
