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- 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]