A doctor and nurse prescribing new medicines for their patient; representing Britain under a new government. The doctor (Peel) holding a medicine bottle labelled: "New tariff" says: "Come take it off like a man! Its the only remedy for your complaint, I have mixed you something very nice to wash it down." The nurse (Wellington) adds: "Come Johnny there's no use making wry faces, you know you must swallow it." John Bull holding a cup inscribed: "Income tax" retorts: "It's a great deal nastier than Dr. Russell's physic." Lying discarded on the floor are a bottle of medicine labelled; "Russell purge" and a container inscribed: "Barings pills."
Description:
Title from text below image., Print signed using John Doyle's "HB" monogram., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Politics, British -- Baring's Pills -- Russell's Purge.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarke[t] and Printed at the Genl. Lithc. Estabt., 70 St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878., Baring, Francis Thornhill, 1796-1866., Peel, Robert, 1788-1850., and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Legislative bodies, Reform, Physician and patient, Nurses, and Medicine
Queen Adelaide, side-saddle on a horse with a man's face, Lord Grey, using spurs and a riding crop to press him into the 'Slough of Despond', joining other politicians including Wellington. Grey says, " Don't drive so hard; you will worry me to death." A signpost 'To Reform' points the other way. A group behind her cry, "Go it, Addy, push him on, don't let him make any, without he first makes us."
Description:
Title from text below image., Series title and numbering in upper right., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression at the Library of Congress., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet trimmed, with loss of imprint.
Publisher:
Published by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837., Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Reform, Politics and government, and Horseback riding
"Alderman Sawbridge stands in profile to the left; he bends forward, holding out his hat in his left hand; in his right is a paper inscribed 'Motion for Reform in the Representation'."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted on page 9 with three other prints.
Publisher:
Publd. by Jas. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Sawbridge, John, 1732?-1795 and Great Britain. Parliament
"Alderman Sawbridge stands in profile to the left; he bends forward, holding out his hat in his left hand; in his right is a paper inscribed 'Motion for Reform in the Representation'."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue. and Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Publisher:
Publd. by Jas. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Sawbridge, John, 1732?-1795 and Great Britain. Parliament
"Alderman Sawbridge stands in profile to the left; he bends forward, holding out his hat in his left hand; in his right is a paper inscribed 'Motion for Reform in the Representation'."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : soft-ground etching on wove paper ; plate mark 17.6 x 11 cm, on sheet 19.7 x 13.2 cm., Mounted with three other prints on leaf 6 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures., and The figure in the print is identified by a small strip of paper (approximately 5 x 35 mm) pasted in lower left corner of sheet with their name in letterpress: Mr. Sawbridge.
Publisher:
Publd. by Jas. Bretherton
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Sawbridge, John, 1732?-1795 and Great Britain. Parliament
