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1. Doctors, bishops, judges, generals, and statesmen at hard work, or, A sitting committee [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [July 1820]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 25. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Ministers, horribly griped, sit on a vast Green Bag (see British Museum Satires No. 13735), trying to hatch eggs. The King hits the kneeling Bloomfield in the face, saying 'They shall hatch by G--d!' John Bull and a soldier (see British Museum Satire...
- Alternative Title:
- Sitting committee and Shitting committee
- Description:
- Title etched below image; the letter "i" in "sitting" is formed from the letter "h" with its left side scored through, suggesting the word "shitting."
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 1820 by Benbow, corner of St. Clements Church Yard, Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, Baron, 1768-1846, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Bishops, Military officers, Bags, Defecation, and Soldiers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Doctors, bishops, judges, generals, and statesmen at hard work, or, A sitting committee [graphic]