Publication Place: England London / Subject (Name): Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 / Subject (Topic): Ceremonial maces

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1. Out of court auspicium melioris devi / [graphic]

Creator:: Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, printmaker
Published / Created:: [21 April 1827]
Call Number:: 827.04.21.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Lady Conyngham chases Eldon from the royal precincts; she threatens him with the sceptre and a clenched fist, saying, Je le veut [sic]. She is décolletée, much bejewelled, and displays an elephantine leg and tiny foot. Close behind her stands Knighton, a pen behind his ear, his arm raised; he has just flung a massive gold inkpot decorated with the Royal Arms; ink falls on Eldon's head. He says: take that, & that, & that, le Roy le veut. 'Roy' is scored through. Canning stands behind impassively, hand on hip, holding up a cross, and saying In hoc Signo vinces [Constantine's miraculous vision: cf. British Museum Satires No. 15385]. The building behind is ornate and Gothic, more elaborate than the actual Cottage. The King's head (out of scale with the building) is framed in a small casement window; with an equivocal expression he looks towards Eldon, saying, Necessitas non habet leges. Eldon has dropped the Mace and the Purse of the Great Seal; he says: Had I served my God with half the Zeal I have served my King, he would not have suffered me to be turned out for supporting his Cause."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Small hole in Knighton's arm.
Publisher:: Pubd. April 21, 1827, by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Name):: Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Knighton, William, Sir, 1776-1836, Canning, George, 1770-1827, and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Subject (Topic):: Chasing, Scepters, and Ceremonial maces
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Out of court auspicium melioris devi / [graphic]

2. The political toy-man [graphic]

Published / Created:: [July 1825]
Call Number:: 825.07.00.06
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Brougham, in wig and gown, stands in Old Square, Lincolns Inn, the roof of the Hall, which forms a background, being so inscribed; houses are on the right. He carries on his head, which is in profile to the right, a tray, inscribed London College; this supports a neo-Gothic building with pinnacles and a clock-tower; tiny trees and figures in academic dress round the building show the scale. From its four corners rise labels inscribed in large letters, Etymology, Orthography, Prosody, Syntax. He says Who'I buy? very cheap, very free. From one shoulder hangs a brief-bag inscribed Subscriptions; from the other a ribbon supporting a handsomely bound book: List of Share Holders. Round his waist is a hoop which also encircles the waists of five little puppets: a man in archaic court-dress, holding a feathered hat, next a stout lady holding a fan and a large purse (? the Duke of St. Albans (as Falconer) and Mrs. Coutts, cf. British Museum Satires No. 14875), a fashionably dressed man in top-hat and furred and frogged coat, and Lord Eldon holding the mace and the Purse of the Great Seal. On the ground is a toy horse on wheels ridden by a yokel in a smock."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image. and Mounted to: 43 x 30 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. July 1825. by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):: Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837, St. Albans, William Beauclerk, Duke of, 1801-1849, Lincoln's Inn (London, England),, and University College, London.
Subject (Topic):: Plazas, Head-carrying, Building models, Toys, Puppets, Books, Bags, and Ceremonial maces
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The political toy-man [graphic]