print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.12.197.a
- Title
- Object: The funeral pile.
- Description
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Plate to 'The Loyalist's Magazine', p. 99. A sequel to No. 13895. The Queen has reached the top of the column; she is blindfolded and wears a fool's cap; but the column is shattered by the radicals, and she falls backwards, dropping sceptre and firebrand. The pedestal tilts, the column is broken in three, and the summit is being hauled down by a rope tugged at by a cheering mob of radicals with pikes. Flames and towering clouds of smoke ascend from a large fire at its base, on which a Bible inscribed 'I H S' and books of 'Laws' and 'Religion' are burning. The Black Dwarf (Wooler, see No. 12988), kneeling, blows it with bellows. Crown, Bible, and cushion fall from the column. Hunt cheers the catastrophe, waving his cap, as do others. There is a tricolour banner topped by a skull and inscribed 'Blood & Plunder'. Cobbett (?) is now on the top of the Queen's ladder, with (?) Wood who cheers from a lower rung.
28 October 1820
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1820
- Dimensions
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Height: 194 millimetres
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Width: 119 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', X, 1952)
The plate was used also as frontispiece to 'The Loyal Investigator and Radical Non mi Ricordo; or the History of the Snug Family' (Reid, No. 4744, Cohn, No. 113).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.12.197.a
