Principal characters in the new play of The road to royalty! [graphic].
- Copyright Date:
- [ca. May 1829]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : wood engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 50.4 x 38.5 cm
- Notes:
- "Price 2s."--Lower left corner.
Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
One line of quoted text below title: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
Title from text at top of sheet. - Abstract:
- And caught each rat by the tail'. [4] No. 15733. Above: 'The Cunning Hen'. The inscription is as the original, but continues, 'or they'll bolt with the coach'. [5] No. 15749, reversed and with the same inscription. Above: 'Paddy Whack!' [6] No. 15736, reversed and altered. Above: 'The Oeld 'un'. His foot is on the Catholic [Bill]. Inscription: 'I drove the Long Tail Blacks [cf. No. 15658] for fifty years. I drove your dad, your honour'. [7] No. 15737, reversed and altered. Above: 'A Kow-Cumber'. Inscription: 'I say, Jemmy All-Weather [see 8], keep your eye on them fellies of the Sovereign--they're arter no good: See they dont prig our luggage. That coach is their own, they think'. [8] A copy of No. 15752, reversed. Above: 'A Man of All-Weathers'. Inscription: 'I was once a bright lad,
But now I'm a Cad'. [9] A copy of No. 15703, reversed and altered; title: 'The Man wot missed his mark'. Above: 'Once in Batter sea
NoW-in-Chelsea'. His paper is headed 'Anti-Catholicism'. On the rock are scrawled two duellists, aiming at each other. Inscription: 'Death's heads and marrow bones, are now my portion'. [10] A copy of No. 15756, reversed and without the letter. Above: 'A drive from Dublin'. Inscription: 'One kick from the leader floor'd me'. [11] 'The Man wot owns the Vestminster'. Above: 'Long Franky'. Burdett stands in profile to the left, knees flexed, regarding a small framed picture of a giraffe (see No. 15425). Inscription: 'I used to go by the John Bull, now I goes by the Sovereign'. (The radical M.P. for Westminster as a supporter of the Ministry, cf. N0.16058.) [12] 'John Bull, broke down'. Above: 'The Last Stage'. Probably based on No. 15743. J. B. stands in profile to the right, bowed under a bulky sack inscribed 'Taxation'; he rests both hands on a stout stick, inscribed 'Trade', which breaks under his pressure. (See No. 15799.)"--British Museum online catalogue.
"Twelve reduced copies (hand-coloured woodcuts), crude and sometimes simplified, of caricatures, arranged in three rows of four, each in a border, having an additional title above the design, the original title (except in No. 9) being below. The original of 11 is not in the Museum. The designs are copied in British Museum Satires No. 15782, or, otherwise, from it. [1] No. 15732, reversed. Above: ''Tis all vel at Vindsor'. Inscription: 'Does jarvey [Wellington] mean to start on his own account? Them leaders seem tohave it all their own way'. [2] No. 15731, reversed. Above: 'Achilles' [cf. No. 14409]. Inscription: 'Ready to start, your Honour'. Reproduced, Hindley, Life and Times of Catnach, p. 214. [3] No. 15734, reversed and altered: Peel holds, not a cage, but a rat by the tail. Above: 'Orange Pe--l' [cf. No. 15390]. Inscription: 'He made each felley turn his coat - Topics:
- Caricatures.
John Bull (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons. - Topics:
- Anglesey, Henry William Paget,--Marquis of,--1768-1854--Caricatures and cartoons.
Burdett, Francis,--1770-1844--Caricatures and cartoons.
Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham,--Marchioness,---1861--Caricatures and cartoons.
Eldon, John Scott,--Earl of,--1751-1838--Caricatures and cartoons.
Eldon, John Scott,--Earl of,--1751-1838--Ownership.
George--IV,--King of Great Britain,--1762-1830--Caricatures and cartoons.
George--V,--King of Hanover,--1819-1878--Caricatures and cartoons.
O'Connell, Daniel,--1775-1847--Caricatures and cartoons.
Peel, Robert,--1788-1850--Caricatures and cartoons.
Rockliffe, Thomas, publisher.
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley,--Duke of,--1769-1852--Caricatures and cartoons.
Wetherell, Charles,--Sir,--1770-1846--Caricatures and cartoons.
Winchilsea, George William Finch-Hatton,--Earl of,--1791-1858--Caricatures and cartoons. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Broadsides--England--19th century.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1829.
Wood engravings--England--London--1829. - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Orbis Record:
- 13970437
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr33077
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, no. 15781
- OID:
- 16819403
- PID:
- digcoll:4776616
