Two individually titled images. On the top a Black judge wearing the robes of his office sits on a bench as he shakes hands with the Duke of Wellington. In the image below a magician twirls a wand over the heads of John Bull with the word "Taxation" ...
Description:
Titles from text below images.
Publisher:
T. McLean
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Law and legislation, Taxation, Magicians, and Ethnic stereotypes
Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (Great Britain)
Published / Created:
[nor before 1798]
Call Number:
File 63 798 So678+
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Docket title.
Publisher:
Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row St. James’s, for the Society for the Bettering the Condition of the Poor, and to be had gratis by the Members of the Society; and by others, at one shillling a dozen
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Parishes (Local government), Law and legislation, Fraternal organizations, Almshouses, and Poor
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Emaciated and shaven-headed paupers treated as slaves by cruel overseers: adults beating hemp and children picking rope in the foreground, others in the background manacled to the wall or hanging from the ceiling, tied up by their feet and hands; to ...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton-Street, Clare-Market
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Almshouses, Children, Forced labor, British, Punishment & torture, Poor persons, Law and legislation, Poor laws, and Political satire, English
"Ktābā d-Húdāyē" (Book of Directions), also translated "Book of Guidances/Guides, and Nomocanon", "al-Hidāyāt" and "al-Hadāyā" (in Arabic), on canon law, by Bār ʻEbrāyā (Bar Hebraeus, 1226-1286), foremost representative of the Syriac renai...
Alternative Title:
Húdāyē, Ktobo d-Hudoye, Hudoye, and ܗܘ̈ܕܝܐ
Description:
In Syriac.
Subject (Geographic):
Islamic Empire.
Subject (Name):
Bar Hebraeus, 1226-1286.
Subject (Topic):
Canon law, Syrian Orthodox Church, Inheritance and succession (Islamic law), Law, Byzantine, Nomocanon, Roman law, Enslaved persons, Emancipation, Law and legislation, and Syriac language
"John Bull stands full-face on the pavement outside a shop window, holding on his head a red cap (i.e., bonnet rouge) trimmed with fur of quasi-military, quasi-libertarian shape. He is the yokel with wrinkled gaiters ... with a tattered great-coat hel...
Alternative Title:
John Bull evading the hat tax
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. April 5th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, New Bond & St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Taxation of articles of consumption, Law and legislation, John Bull (Symbolic character), Cats, Hats, Millinery, Slaughtering, Swords, Taxes, Show displays, and Window displays
