A rotund man on the right, wearing a hat and a long coat with a bottle in the pocket, holds a pistol in the face of a frightened John Bull figure with a cane on the left. The threatening man holds out a document entitled "An act for the more severe ob...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Handguns, Threats, Bottles, Documents, Staffs (Sticks), and Fear
"A small table with three legs standing in centre, surrounded by two groups of men involved in the gambling game Thimble Rig; the operator of the game (Edward John Littleton), standing to right, with his hands on two of the three thimbles on the table...
Alternative Title:
Thimblerig
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847, Spencer, John Charles Spencer, Earl, 1782-1845, Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1799-1869, Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878, Monteagle of Brandon, Thomas Spring-Rice, Baron, 1790-1866, Hatherton, Edward John Walhouse Littleton, Baron, 1791-1863, and Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Gambling, Tables, Spectators, and Conversation
"Two statuettes, with caricature features of (left) the Duke of Wellington marked 'Oxford', the other of Brougham, marked 'Great Britain'. The statuettes are in the manner of the French sculptor Jean Pierre Dantan."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Oxford ; Great Britain
Description:
Title from text below images.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Bird, 1 Wells St., Oxford St. and G.E. Madeley lith., 3 Wellington St., Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Dantan, Jean-Pierre, 1800-1869, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
April 26th, 1834.
Call Number:
Print01027
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two battered Greenwich Pensioners, one missing all four limbs, the other an arm and a leg, in conversation outside a building marked 'The Helpless Ward' of the Hospital Infirmary, with three other severely incapacitated veterans beside it. The inscri...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Squr and Printed by S. Lingham, Bazzar, Grays Inn
