print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.6.131
- Title
- Object: Paying their footing,!! or the public judgment. John Bull on the Bench
- Description
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Maria Foote, plainly dressed and demure in cap and apron, stands in the dock (right) between Col. Berkeley, a ragged ruffian, and Hayne, a lunatic in a strait-jacket. Above the dock is a slanting board inscribed Reflection. John Bull, in judge's robes, sits in an arm-chair on a dais (left). He faces the culprits, saying, Your sentence Miss Trip Foot, is that you be sent to the Magdalen for a Season, there to repent and be purified. You Mr Backbite to the House of Correction, and there to be treading the Tread Mill [see BM Satires 14406], untill a total reform is evinced. As for you Mr Peagreen! the Court in commiseration of your Malady consign you to St Lukes for a Twelve-month as an experiment on your Case. And may the public have mercy on you all. Berkeley, who is heavily fettered, says: Pray Mr Bull be merciful for when I am made a Peer, I shall turn Saint and appoint Dick, Fletcher my Domestic Chaplain!! as I fear I shall never be able to Kneel again. Hayne, whose head is shaved, capers with an insane grin, saying, I've Kissed and I've prattled with fifty [fair maids] &c &c. [Beggar's Opera]. A clerk sits at the table, staring at the dock. On the table are a mace and papers: Indictments; Watehouse [sic, see BM Satires 14274] Foot, &c &c; Charges; Bastardy; Letters ; Dr . . .; Dr Leake. Behind, grave spectacled lawyers are indicated. January 12 1825
Etching with hand-colouring
- Production date
- 1825
- Dimensions
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Height: 244 millimetres
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Width: 345 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)
See No. 14711, &c. Berkeley was cr. Baron Segrave in 1831, Earl Fitz-Hardinge in 1841. For Dick v. Fletcher see No. 14700, &c. John Bull's opinion is similar in No. 14864, but cf. No. 14861.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.6.131
