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Williams. Monopolisers caught
in their own Trap or a Companion to the Farmers Toast.
Published May 15th 1801 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly.
13½ x 9½. Original colour and reasonable margins.
Some marks top right.
Four unhappy looking farmers face the Mayor, who was responsible
for setting the price of bread. The prospects were for a very
good harvest and thus a fall in the price.
B. M. 9720.
£160. |
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Caricature. DISMAL DANDIES
– or – General Mourning & Crape.
Published by Thos. Tegg 111 Cheapside London. Numbered 326 to
right.
13¾ x 9¾. Reasonable original colour, with some
staining of the margins. Good margins to the top and the base
small margins to the sides. On paper with a watermarked date
of 1819.
A finely dressed soldier removes his hat and addresses his friend
saying. “Adieu Col! Crape! I’m for Court that’s
the place, For exhibiting trappings, and making a Face!!”
The friend replies. “And I to Parade! that with
my humour chimes For Parade and Paradeing’s the Ton of
the Times.”
Not in the B.M.
£145. |
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Williams. A NAVAL ENQUIRY WITH A NAUTICAL
EXPLANATION.
Published March 25th 1805 by Fores. 13 ¾ x 9 ½.
Original colour - somewhat faded. Most of the plate mark still
showing. Trotter and Melville in kilts being examined by the
five commissioners of Naval Enquiry. Trotter had speculated
with public money, and Melville protected him . Lord Melville
(Dundas) resigned from office and was also removed from the
Privy Council.
B.M. 10377
£75. |
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C. Williams. SKETCHES OF FAIRYLAND
or a Comparison between England & Lilliput. Pl. 1 &
Pl. 2.
Published by, Thos Tegg 111 Cheapside. (Dec. 1810).
13¾ x 9¾ (both). Original colour with good margins.
Plate 2. Has an old crease lower right, but not over the image
area.
Each image has a sarcastic comment on what happens in Lilliput;
which in reality is what happens in England. Thus, the lower
central image, on plate 2, says, “In Summer the
Beaus are buttoned to the chin, and the Ladies go half naked,
can any thing be more absurd”.
B. M. 11581 & 11582.
£285. The pair. |
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C. Williams. Dramatic
Action Illustrated, or Hamlet’s advice to Players…..
Thos. Tegg III Cheapside. Price 1/- color’d. (The B.
M. has a suggested date of 1811).
13¾ x 9½. Original colour with good margins.
The title carries on “suit the Action to the Word, and
the Word to Action. Dedicated to the celebrated Amateur of
Fashion.”
B. M. 11770.
£185. |
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Williams. GREYS AND DUNNS, or, a Prime
Bang Up for the Bit.
Published July 10th 1810 by Tegg. 13 ¾ x 9 ¾.
Good original colour with reasonable margins. The two central
figures - the fashionably dressed young man, and the amateur
whip are surrounded by creditors asking for payment.
B.M. 11647.
£140. |
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Williams. THE COMFORTS OF A MODERN GALA.
Published By Tegg. (c.1810).
13 ½ x 9 ½. Good original colour with reasonable
margins. Small repaired tear lower left, not reaching the engraved
area. A crowd of ‘cits’ attempting to keep up with
current fashions. The comments are to do with the crush, lost
wigs, or how uncomfortable the clothes are.
B.M. 11471.
£200. |
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Williams. VAGARIES OF NATURE AND ART
- or - Curiosities of the Parade. Published 1819 by
Tegg.
13 ¾ x 9 ½. Good original colour with reasonable
margins. A satire on the Prince of Wales exotic taste in uniforms.
B.M. 13058.
£225. |
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Williams. THE THREE BEST
PHYSICIANS. - Dr. Diet - Dr. Merryman and Dr. Quit. A Hint to
Hippocondriacks.
Published by Tegg, c.1813.
13" x 9 ¼". Good original colour; trimmed almost
to the image.
Dr. Merryman is the one kicking Death out of the door.
B.M. 12157
£200. |
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Williams. BRITISH GRACES. Attireing the
Circassian Venus in the English Costume.
Published 1819 by Tegg.
13 ¾ x 9 ¾. Good original colour with reasonable
margins.
In April the Persian Ambassador and his wife, who was known
as ‘the Circassion Beauty’ arrived in London, with
two attendants supposed to be eunuchs. Here she is being dressed
in tight laced English clothes.
B.M. 13393.
£150. |
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Williams. THE DEVONSHIRE MINUET.
Published May 29th 1813 by Wm. Holland No. 11 Cockspur Street.
This image is printed on paper with a watermark of 1815.
13 x 9¾. Reasonably good original colour with reasonable
margins.
George III and the future Prince Regent were known to have had
rows about Princess Charlotte flirting with the Duke of Devonshire.
This image shows Princess Charlotte and the Duke of Devonshire,
not caricatured, dancing the minuet together, they are both
portrayed as a very handsome pair. There are two groups of interested
spectators; the ladies are seated whilst the gentlemen stand.
B.M. 12052.
£140. |
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Williams. QUALMS of CONSCIENCE –
or – The Lawyers Exit; Pro Bono Publico.
Published by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside. c.1808, bearing the number
379 above the image.
9½ x 13½. Trimmed to/within the plate mark.
Good original colour, minor creasing, and some slight staining
to the right of the image.
A lawyer, on his deathbed, is propped up holding a legal document.
He is addressing a man who stands at the end of the bed. He
is saying, My good friend! I am not long for this World,
and having caused your ruin by engagein you in so many destructive
Lawsuits, I have sent for you that I might ease my conscience
by giving you advice for your future guidance. never engage
in Law unless you can depend on these circumstances. first
plenty of money – secondly a good cause. thirdly –
an honest attorney – fourthy a good Council –
fifthly – good Evidence – sixthly a good Jury
– seventhly – a good Judge and lastly Good luck
– I have now eased my conscience and shall d…d…die
hap.. Mercy on me! Oh what a gripe.
A fat and terrified nurse stands at the head end of the bed
looking over her shoulder she says; Crimini! What a smell
of Brimstone!
The man at the end of the bed replies; My good friend!
you have taken an effectual method to prevent my engageing
in Law, by having reduced me to poverty. I shall however publish
your advice pro bono publico, as for myself a burnt Child
dreads the Fire you know! So I wish you a good journey.
After the title is written; Who goes to Law, learn this
rote, I gain my suit, but lose my Coat.
B.M. 11149.
£280.
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C. Williams. NAP nearly NAB’D or
a Retreating Jump Just in Time.
After the title is added “Never dick trusty squire with
knight Or knight with squire, e’er jump more right, vide
Bonny Russian Campaign. Plate 7.
Published by Thos. Tegg No, 111 Cheapside, June 1813. With a
Tegg No. 203.
13¾ x 9¾. Good original colour, with small repaired
tears into the margins.
Napoleon leaps in terror from a window. Another French officer
steps onto the sill about to follow, saying “Vite
courez Mon Empereur Ce Diable de Cossack dey spoil our dinner!!”
In the background, Cossacks gallop across a snowy landscape
towards the house.
This image also turns up on pottery of the time – see
David Drakard ‘Printed English Pottery.’
B. M. 12058.
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Williams. Making - Decent; - i.e. –
Broad – bottomites getting into the Grand Costume.
Published February 1806, by S. W. Fores No 50 Piccadilly.
9¾ x 13¾. Good original colour with small margins.
This is one of the many engravings Williams produced for Fores
copying Gillray’s designs.
Members of the new Ministry are preparing themselves for office.
Both Fox and Grey are looking into a pier-glass which is surmounted
by the Royal Arms and Prince’s feathers. This is indicating
Carlton House and the Prince’s ‘ostentatious patronage’
of the new Ministry. Grey is seen brushing his teeth, behind him
stands Sidmouth. Vansittart is puffing powder from a bag onto
Sidmouth. In the foreground, Lord Henry Petty is strutting with
pointed toe. Windham, behind him sits in a tub. Lord Grenville
is seen hitching-up his breeches. Moria is standing stiffly with
his back against the wall. The Duke of Bedford sits on a stool
pulling on a top boot, resting his leg on Tierney. Behind Bedford,
Sheridan struggles with a shirt. Lord Spencer is washing his hands
in a basin on the table. Erskine is adjusting his hat. They are
all self-absorbed in their pursuit of finery. ‘Grand Costume’
suggests the official dress of the French Directory, a favourite
subject of Gillray.
B.M. 10531.
£240. |
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C. WILLIAMS. THE RIVAL QUEANS –
OR A SCENE IN THE BEGGARS OPERA.
Published March 1809 by Walker. Cornhill.
13½ x 9½. Original colour on laid paper and trimmed
onto/within the plate mark, but well outside the image and with
slight marks, with a watermark of 181(?).
The Duke of York stands between Mrs Clark on the left, and Mrs
Carey. Both had been mistresses of the Duke, and although he
had been cleared of corruption, he had resigned from his position
in the army. This was also the time when Mrs Clarke had threatened
to publish her memoirs.
B. M. 11277.
£130. |
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Williams. DRAMATIC EFFECT or the Death
of Gen Duroc.
Published by Wm. Holland No. 11 Cockspur Street London. June
9th 1813.
12¾ x 9¾. Good original colour, trimmed onto/within
the plate mark at the base, small margins to the top and sides.
Napoleon stands holding the hand of the dying Duroc; with his
other hand, he covers his face. Duroc is saying to him, “My
whole life has been consecrated to your service nor do I regret
its loss but for the use it still might have been of to you!”
Napoleon replies, “Duroc! there is a life to
come; its there you are going to wait for me and where we shall
one day meet again!” Duroc replies, “Yes
Sire! but that will not be these thirty years, when you will
have triumphed over your enemies and realised all the hopes
of your country. I have lived an honest man; I have nothing
to reproach myself with ah! Sire go away this sight gives you
pain” – Napoleon, “Farewell then
my friend.”
Duroc was mortally wounded at Bautzen on the 21st May and died
on the 23rd May.
B. M. 12061.
£145. |
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Williams. BILLY PIERROT and His Puppet.
Published by S. W. Fores No. 50 Piccadilly. August 4th 1804.
Lower right is printed; Folio of Caricatures lent out for the
Evening.
9¾ x 13¾. Good original colour with very small
margins and a small repaired tear just touching the image lower
right, on laid paper, with very slight surface marks and a tiny
hole on the right hand carriage.
Pitt is dress as Pierrot. He is playing with a puppet in the
shape of G. B. Mainwaring. As he pulls the strings of the puppet
he says, “Here he is Gentlemen, a Chip of the Old
Block One of my own Manufactory. Here you go up up up, And then
you go down down downee". This satire relates to the
Middlesex Election of 1804, when Burdett opposed Mainwaring.
B. M. 10263.
£200. |
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Williams. DOS A DOS or RUMPTI IDDITO
IDO. – NATURAL ACCIDENTS IN PRACTISING QUADRILLE DANCING.
Published by S. W. Fores No. 50 Piccadilly London. May 1817.
14 x 10. Good original colour, on laid paper with reasonable
margins.
A satire of dancing. Two couples collide violently registering
surprise and indignation, whilst others look on in amusement.
B. M. 12933.
£200. |
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Williams. Reposing on a Bed of Roses.
Published April 1806 by Walker 7 Cornhill.
13½ x 9¾. Original colour with small margins.
Some browning of the paper mainly centre right.
Fox, Sheridan, and other Ministers are all complaining of how
uncomfortable their magnificent state bed is.
B. M. 10559.
£130. |
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Williams. Error in Judgement or John
Bull taking advantage of a Precedent.
Published Jan. 15th 1806 by S W Fores. 50 Piccadilly.
14 x 10. Original colour and trimmed onto/within the plate mark.
This image has been carefully put into an album sheet.
Pitt, bowing low before John Bull is being reprimanded for the
alliance with Russia, which was seen as a reason for some Allied
disasters.
B. M. 10517,
£190. |
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Williams. John Bull on a Bed of Roses.
Published July 1806 by William Holland Cockspur Street.
14 x 9¾. Trimmed onto/within the plate mark. Reasonable
original colour, very minor staining.
John Bull is portrayed as a plebeian, stout and dishevelled
lies on his back on a tangle of large roses with vicious thorns.
He is exclaiming, “Oh Lord! Oh Lord! if this be the
Bed of Roses they make such a noise about I’d sooner lye
with the Old Sow and her Farrow in the Dog Days! – My
Dame will roar woundidly when she comes to bed! Ecod it’s
as bad as lying on a Harrow upside down!”
This is satire on the long awaited plan of Windhams for the
reorganisation of the army. It was based on short service, increased
pensions, the abandonment of grants to volunteers, and military
training for those liable to service in the militia.
B. M. 10583.
£190. |
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Williams. THE WESTMINSTER SECEDER ON
FRESH DUTY.
Published March 14th 1801 by Fores. 8 ½ x 12. Good original
colour with small margins.
Fox allows Horne Tooke to reach up towards a window in St. Stephens.
Horne Tooke, as a clergyman was barred from being in parliament.
Lord Temple was opposed to him taking his seat, and is seen
closing the door.
B.M. 9715.
£140. |
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Williams. THE WAY TO STOP A YARMOUTH
CART.
Published July 1805 by Holland. 13 ¼ x 9 ¼. Good
original colour; trimmed to the image.
A Yarmouth Cart was “something of the nature of a sledge,
with one horse”.
The buxom passenger says
“Oh my dear Jack, don’t
venture, you’ll be killed”.
The answer is
“Don’t make a noise, Bet
- I’ve brought her to -, with all sails set, D—n
me.”
B.M. 10488.
£90. |
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Williams. First Going Alone.
Published by Thos. Tegg. Cheapside. (1810).
9 x 13½. Original colour and trimmed to the engraved
border with slight loss top left.
“Sweet little
Baby, how it toddles along – Oh Bless those pretty legs
of thine. I’m sure thee will become LORD MAYOR, and mayhap
a MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.”
B. M. 11616.
£85. |
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C. Williams. PERUSING THE STATE PAPERS.
or Sounding the Opinions of John Bull.
(Before the addition of the publication line. The B. M. example
is published March 1808 by Walker, No.7 Cornhill). This example
has ‘March 1808’ added in ink.
14¼ x 10¼. Reasonable original colour and small
margins. Slight crinkling of the paper top right corner.
Napoleon on the left with John Bull. A British General wearing
a star and the Duke of Portland.
The B. M. suggests that the subject of the print may be the
measures and counter-measures of the Continental system.
B. M. 10971.
£160. |
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Williams. Mrs Clarke Driving her Ponies.
Published July 10th 1809 by S W Fores 50 Picadilly.
14½ x 10. Original colour with slight surface marks.
Margins at the sides and trimmed onto/within the plate mark
at the top and bottom.
Wright is sitting beside Mrs Clarke; the horses have heads of
the Duke of York, and Wardle.
B. M. 11345.
£145. |
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Williams. A Portugal Catch for three
Voices.
Published Oct. 1808 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly.
14¼ x 9¾. Original colour on laid paper with a
watermark of 1806. Trimmed onto/within the plate mark and with
slight damage top left resulting from the glue on the verso
and a slight crease in the central picture on the wall, which
is showing the French wagons returning home laden with plunder.
Dalrymple sits on the right with his face coloured grey. He
was rightly being accused by the others of the mistakes of the
Convention of Cintra. In particular, after taking over command
from Wellesley his refusal to sanction the immediate pursuit
of Junot meant that the victory was not followed up.
B. M. 11042.
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Williams. The Two Journals. (Journal
1 and Journal 2).
Published July 1814 by Thos Tegg 111 Cheapside.
(Both) 13½ x 9½. Original colour with reasonable
margins. Both with a small tear lower left, but not reaching
the area of the picture. Two small worm holes top right on both
images.
Journal 1 shows the Tsar on his London trip. He was popular
with the crowds and avoided some of the luxuries of the Regent.
He also slighted the Regent and cultivated the Opposition.
The second image shows scenes in the daily life of the Regent
– getting up late; being hooted by the crowd and the seventh
section refers to his daily visits to Lady Hertford.
B. M. 12290 and 12291.
(Pair) £300. |
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Williams. John Bull contemplating a Statue
of Portland Stone.
Published April 1807 by Walker No 7 Cornhill.
14 x 10. Original colour and with large margins.
Portland was deaf gouty and infirm and only a figurehead. Here
he sits, statue like, and with a placard hanging around his
neck, “Repaired and Whitewashed in the year 1807”.
An elderly John Bull says, “I really thought this
Statue was gone to decay a long time ago!!....”
B. M. 10718.
£125. |
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Williams. A New Cure for Jackobinism
or a Peep in the Tower.
Published April 1810 by Walker 7 Cornhill
15 x 11¾. Original colour with good margins. An old central
fold, as this item has been in an
Album, there is a tear top right just touching the image, but
no paper loss. On paper with a watermark date of 1822.
Burdett is shown behind bars, though he is shown in a menagerie
rather than in the Tower. He is holding a copy of the ‘Magna
Charter’
The King, Queen and one of the Princesses are watching. One
of the animals, also behind bars, is an ass with the head of
Percival.
B. M. 11549
£200. |
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C. Williams. Delivering a Prophetess.
Published Nov. 1st 1814 by W. N. Jones No 5 Newgate Street.
13¾ x 9½. Original colour, trimmed onto/within
the plate mark, with the usual folds as this is an image from
the ‘Scourge’. Very slight marks.
Doctors and her supporters surround Joanna Southcott. This is
one of a number of prints about the wonderful ‘pregnancy’
and the imminent birth of the new Messiah.
B. M. 12335.
£120. |
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C. WILLIAMS. A New Mode, or Preventing
Two Addresses at Once.
Published Feb. 1818 by S. W. Fores No. 50 Piccadilly.
13½ x 9½. Original colour with good margins.
Prince Leopold and Queen Charlotte sit in the chairs and a well-dressed
official is presenting both of them with scrolls, both of which
relate to the death of Princess Charlotte. Leopold is given
one headed, 'Address of Condolence without one dissenting
voice', and the Queen’s address says, “I
think the ayes have it.”
Below Prince Leopold is,
“When scenes of Affliction,
of Sorrow and Pain,
Affect our dear Relatives, Neighbours and Friends,
We hasten to sooth them, relieve. or sustain,
Nor cease our attentions ‘till nature amends.”
Below the Queen,
“But those in high rank, whose
Affections & Feeling,
Forbid them to follow the old trodden Path,
Their Relations may suffer in Tears Unavailing,
By dying at C----- while they Dance to Bath,
A Man of Feeling.”
When the Princess died the Queen was at Bath and the ‘C’
refers to the Prince being at Claremont.
B. M. 12984.
£175. |
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C. WILLIAMS. Skaiting - Dandies, Shewing
Off.
Published by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. (c. 1818).
13¾ x 9¾. Original colour and small margins.
A typical dandy scene. The dandy skaters are falling over in
exaggerated incompetence while in the distance others skate
well. They are being watched by a group of ladies on the left.
B. M. 13074.
£185. |
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C. WILLIAMS. York Commission Warehouse;
Published February 1809 by Walker No 7 Cornhill.
13 x 9. Original colour and trimmed onto/within the plate mark.
Slight creasing in the top right corner.
The central figure is Mrs Clark and she holds a ‘List
of Prices at Clark and Co’s Warehouse.’
On the right and standing beneath an upside down portrait of
the Duke of York is a fiddler offering to help with commissions.
This represents Domenico Corri, a music-master who was an intermediary.
Attacks had been made on both the Duke and Mrs Clark for selling
commissions, and although there was an enquiry in the Commons
regarding the suspected profiteering by the Duke no proof was
forthcoming.
Public interest in this scandal was immense and there were numerous
caricatures on the affair.
B. M. 11216.
£200. |
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Charles Williams. HOCUS POSUS; OR, CONJURORS
RAISING THE WIND.
Published Oct. 1st 1814 by W. N. Jones No 5 Newgate Street.
21 x 8¼. Original colour with the usual folds as this
is a plate from the ‘Scourge’. Trimmed
just to the image at the top and outside the image elsewhere.
A small repaired tear near the first letter of the title.
A satire on the insolvency of Colman who was allowed out of
prison so he could put on plays at the Haymarket. Here he is
sitting in the centre of the print with unpaid actors around
him asking for payment. On the left of the image a large group
of tradesmen also want their pay. On the right is Mathews as
harlequin, and the man dressed as a clown and sitting on the
pony is Scaramouch (Tokely).
B. M. 12328.
£200. |
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Charles Williams. STATE MYSTERIES A VISION
OF PALL MALL.
Published April 1st by W. N. Jones Newgate Street.
20¼ x 8. Original colour with the usual folds as this
is an image from the ‘Scourge’. Trimmed
within the plate mark but there is blank paper all the way around
the outside of the image. Slight creasing.
The Prince of Wales is on the couch with Lord and Lady Douglas
and Lady Hertford who is described in the B. M. as, “clutching
his legs in an abandoned way”.
Almost sixty years after this was written Kenneth Baker, in
his book, ‘George IV A Life in Caricature’ writes,
“she is taking refuge by hiding her head in the Regent’s
groin – an implication that he enjoyed fellation.”
A dignified Princess of Wales is supported by Truth who is holding
up the mirror directed at George. On the left are members of
the Privy Council, members of the so-called ‘Delicate
Investigation’.
B. M. 12028.
£220. |
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Charles Williams. Modern Idolatry –
or – Editors and Idols.
Published April 1st 1814 by W N Jones No 1 Newgate Street.
21¼ x 8¼. Original colour with the usual folds
as this is an item from the ‘Scourge’.
Trimmed well outside the image.
A satire on the Press with the editors sitting in front of their
respective idols. The central idol is the Devil; he looks down
on the editor of the ‘Courier’. Other idols
include Marquis Wellesley, Lord Liverpool, the Regent, Napoleon,
and Sir Francis Burdett.
On the extreme right is a puzzled John Bull leaning against
the statue of ’Pax’. John says, “This
is the way I’m bamboozled – Patriots ! – dirty
work and the Devils hire are fit for each other – the
highest bidder has you all!!! – “
B. M.12207.
£185. |
