Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1831]
Call Number:
831.00.00.39
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from heading above image., Caption below image: Hey laddie can ye no tell what's the matter wi' me, for I dinna ken myself., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms:, and Watermark.
Title from caption below image., Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record., 'E. Purcell' was probably Edward Purcell, Irish miniature painter and drawing master., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
Augt. 19th, 1831.
Call Number:
831.08.19.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An angler sitting on the branch of a tree overhanging a river in the rain, open umbrella over his shoulder, peering at a shoal of gudgeon grinning at him just out of reach of his hook
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
Title from caption below image., Plate number following series title has been partially erased., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"John Bull as a Chinese, in Chinese costume, hugely corpulent sits full-face in an arm-chair, legs extended, hands resting on the sides of his paunch. He looks to three doctors on the left, the foremost being Grey, who leans towards him, pointing to his colleagues (left), and saying suavely, 'This deformity is quite inconsistent, believe me, with the Nature of your Constitution & therefore must be got rid of, I will undertake with your approbation, to remove it & my assistant Doctor Russell here will prepare you for the Operation'. Lord John Russell, on the extreme left, speaks confidentially to Althorp who is in back view: 'I once thought that a case of this description ought to be treated with great caution and even wrote as well as talked a great deal about it, but now I am quite of a different opinion I think there is nothing like cutting away thro' thick & thin!' J. B.: 'I ca'nt say that my bodily health was ever better, or that I ever felt stronger tho' to be sure I am not growing younger; but then every one is telling me how deformed I am grown of late & this tumour which I have had from my infancy is all a Mass of Corruption'. On the right and slightly farther from the picture-plane, the rival doctors, Peel and Wellington, are in consultation. The Duke: 'I say the Man has no defect in his Constitution & that what they call corruption is necessary to his existance--but now because he would not believe me, but choses rather to submit to the experiments of these rash operators --Wharnecliffe who is a sensible Man lays all the blame on me'. Peel: 'Yet I begin to think we could have done better, when we found him determined to think that his Constitution was impaired, to have tried--just in the way of soothing, a gentle alterative Course'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Alternative Title:
John Bull and the doctors
Description:
Title from text below image., Print signed with the monogram "HB," which was used by John Doyle., Variant state lacking C. Motte's printer statement in lower right. Cf. No. 16666 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Politics, British.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England.
Subject (Name):
Hoo Loo, 1799-1831., Grey, Charles, 2nd Earl, 1764-1845, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878, Spencer, John Charles Spencer, Earl, 1782-1845, and Wharncliffe, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley, Baron, 1776-1845.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, John Bull (Symbolic character), Tumors, Surgery, Politicians, and Obesity
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Imprint continues: ... where political and other caricatuers are daily pub., the largest collection of any house in London., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below leftmost image in center of design., Ten designs on one plate, six of which have individual titles., One print in a series. Variant series name on one other print: General rules for the art of tormenting., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge and mutilated in upper right corner with possible loss of plate number., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 1831 by Charles Tilt, 86 Fleet Street
Title from caption below center image., Artist from signature on other prints in the series., Six designs on one plate, five of which have individual titles., One print in a series. Variant series name on one other print: General rules for the art of tormenting., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Couples.
Title from caption below center image., Artist from signature on other prints in the series., Six designs on one plate, five of which have individual titles., One print in a series. Variant series name on one other print: General rules for the art of tormenting., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Stocks (Punishment).
