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1. A picture of futurity [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- May 1831.
- Call Number:
- 831.05.00.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Grey stands in the center pulling back a curtain on the large painting (right) addressing the three men (probably Peel, Cumberland, and Wellington) who look on in amazement. Grey says, "Gentlemen this is a fine color'd picture representing Futurity. The idea of which was concieved [sic] by an injured people and painted by a new and promising artist. Reform." Reading from the left Peel looks at himself in the painting seated in a chair at a loom, "Why if there a'nt me at a spinning Jenny." Cumberland, hat flying off, looking at himself depicted in the painting on his backside, "And me dying on a dunghill." And Wellington closest to the painting that depicts him as a wounded soldier holding a broom and begging with his cap in hand, observes "And me begging." In the painting is a tower with the British and French flags the former with the year 1814, referencing the Wellington's successful campaign to end the Peninsular War
- Description:
- Title from text below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by G. Tregear, Cheapside
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Great Britain. Parliament, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, and Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845
- Subject (Topic):
- Reform, Politics and government, Begging, Spinning machinery, and Paintings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A picture of futurity [graphic]
2. Here we go up up up and there he goes down down downe [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1831]
- Call Number:
- 831.00.00.50
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satire of the 1832 Reform Bill, with a see-saw with the Crown as the fulcrum. At the center is William IV, waving the Union flag; to the right is Lord Grey, seated on the lever, helping William balance with a scroll marked 'Union', with John Bull standing underneath, wedging the lever up with the 'Reform Bill'; and to the right the Duke of Wellington tumbles backwards as the lever breaks under the weight of him and two huge scrolls marked 'Anti Reform'.
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Date from dealer's description., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Laid on canvas backing.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by O. Hodgson, 10 Cloth Fair
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Great Britain. Parliament
- Subject (Topic):
- Reform, Politics and government, John Bull (Symbolic character), Seesaws, Crowns, Flags, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Here we go up up up and there he goes down down downe [graphic].
3. [Political cartoons relating to reform in Great Britain and the United States] [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1832]
- Call Number:
- 724 832 P769
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- A series of crude (and in some cases explicitly racist) lithographed cards numbered 1-16, with scenes relating to political reform on both sides of the Atlantic. On British side, they cover the reforms to the franchise made by the 1832 Reform Act, poking fun at 'poor distress'd turn'd out Boroughmongers' (No. 1), the rural squirearchy (No. 7), Taxes (No. 9), the established Church (No. 10) and Irishmen (no. 12), among others. United States political issues are shown in the second card which reuses - with added racist slurs - the design of Edward Williams Clay (1799-1857) entitled 'Hurrah! hurrah for Genl. Jackson!!' under the caption 'Life in Philadelphia'. Cards nos. 4 and 7, with yet more overt racism, use references to American segregationism to caricature British political positions
- Description:
- Title from dealer's description., Approximate date of publication based on publisher's street address; the York stationer and lithographer William Fletcher Wodson (1801-1860) operated from his "2 Pavement" location only between 1830 and 1833. Additional evidence comes from references to the 1832 Reform Act and the presidency of Andrew Jackson., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- W.F. Wodson, lith., Pavement, York
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and United States
- Subject (Name):
- Great Britain. Parliament
- Subject (Topic):
- Reform, Politics and government, Ethnic stereotypes, Poverty, and Racism
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Political cartoons relating to reform in Great Britain and the United States] [graphic].