What a scandalous shame it is that they are allow'd to take people off in this here kind of way [graphic]

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Title: What a scandalous shame it is that they are allow'd to take people off in this here kind of way [graphic]
Alternative Title: What a scandalous shame it is that they are allowed to take people off in this here kind of way
Creator: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created: [approximately 1830]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: John Key, depicted with donkey ears, weeps while looking at a print of a donkey that is titled "DON KEY" at top, which he holds in his right hand; with his left hand he holds a handkerchief up to his face
Description: Title from text below image.
Signed with Charles Jameson Grant's initials in lower right.
Approximate year of publication inferred from other prints that depict Key as a donkey. These were published at the time of his initial election in 1830 as Lord Mayor of London; see, for example, no. 16322 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 11.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Remnants of brown paper backing on verso.
Provenance: Brian Maidment; July 2024.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 29 x 20.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1830
Lithographs England London 1830
Material: lithograph ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
London.
Subject (Name): Key, John, 1794-1858
Subject (Topic): Mayors
Crying
Donkeys
Handkerchiefs
Subjects: Key, John, 1794-1858 > Caricatures and cartoons
Mayors > England > London
Crying
Donkeys
Handkerchiefs
England > 1830
England > London > 1830
Maidment, Brian > Donor