Military pastime, or, The bastards in their glory [and 14 other designs] / [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Military pastime, or, The bastards in their glory [and 14 other designs] / [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Bastards in their glory
- Creator
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer, artist
- Contributor
- King, E., active 1819-1831, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [1 August 1832]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Published by E. King, news agent, Chancery Lane, also by C.N. Lewis, bookseller & news agent, 6 Market St., Manchester, & by Ross & Nightingale, at the office of the Liverpool Chronicle, 9 Lord St., Liverpool, & of most booksellers & newsmen in town & country
- Abstract
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Seven rows of individually-titled designs on one sheet folded in half to create two pages. Starting with the largest design at the top of the first page, "Military pastime, or, The bastards in their glory" shows men in military uniform laughing and drinking at a table on the left while a restrained man is being brutally flogged on the right. The next row contains two images: the first, entitled "The new Germanic crusade against liberty," depicts four soldiers about to place a large conical fire extinguisher labeled "The extinguisher of freedom" over a stove topped with a liberty cap and labeled "Liberty of the press"; the second, entitled "A quietus for the great bear," shows two men in a boat offering a bag labeled "£50000" on a long pole to a hideous monster that clutches nine terrified men in its arms. The single image in the third row, "Smelling for the cholera, nose v. to bluster, oppose scent," shows several men sticking their large, carbuncled noses in various places to the alarm of others. The fourth row, at the top of the second page, contains a single image entitled "Grand glee & chorus as sung at the city reform gorge, July 11th 1832" in which several figures (including a larger man and woman on the right) sing enthusiastically from a balcony labeled with the word "REFORM". The fifth row contains three scenes satirizing William IV and Queen Adelaide: "Bil-king (the people)" is a depiction of the King writing a document for a "Holy Alliance between the sovereigns of Germany, Russia & Great Britian to suppress popular liberty"; "Vinegar and brown paper" shows Adelaide kissing the cheek of William; and "Swallowing a German sausage" shows the Devil about to eat a sausage with the head of Queen Adelaide on one end. The seven images in the final two rows of the second page are social and political satires: "An earwhig - once a sergeant now a general" depicts a man in wig and gown holding a bag labeled "Ex officio bag"; "A secret worth knowing" shows two elderly people with canes conversing; "Stallfed" depicts a large man with the face of a pig dining on a luxuriant meal at a table; "A regular swell" shows an obese man whose body is spherical; "Specimen of a police magistrate" shows the face of a gruff looking man with the dialogue "What do you want to browbeat me" above; "Shooters ill (hill)" is a depiction of three hunters on the ground clutching their stomachs, in obvious distress; and finally, "Heaving a head" shows a man being thrown forward off his horse
- Description
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Title devised by cataloger, using caption above design at top of first page.
Series title and number at top of first page. Dated below series title: August 1st, 1832.
Text below imprint statement: For a favorable opinion of this work, see the following popular journals, Satiris, Septr. 4th Decr. 6th &c. ...
"Price 2/0"--Upper left of first page.
The two pages are detached from one another, with sheet torn at former fold running vertically down its center. - Provenance
- Brian Maidment; July 2024.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 49.5 x 68 cm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Maidment G761 no. 18 Box 7
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1832
Lithographs England London 1832 - Material
- lithograph ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name)
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William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849 - Subject (Topic)
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Military uniforms
Eating & drinking
Whipping
Soldiers
Fire extinguishers
Stoves
Liberty cap
Boats
Bags
Monsters
Noses
Singing
Kings
Queens
Writing materials
Sausages
Devil
Pitchforks
Older people
Gluttony
Obesity
Hunting
Stomach aches
Horses - Subjects
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William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 > Caricatures and cartoons
Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849 > Caricatures and cartoons
Military uniforms
Eating & drinking
Whipping
Soldiers
Fire extinguishers
Stoves
Liberty cap
Boats
Bags
Monsters
Noses
Singing
Kings > Great Britain
Queens > Great Britain
Writing materials
Sausages
Devil
Pitchforks
Older people
Gluttony
Obesity
Hunting
Stomach aches
Horses
England > 1832
England > London > 1832
Maidment, Brian > Donor
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 99175555433408651
- Object ID (OID)
- 33383886
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