The march of intellect [graphic] / Shortshanks fecit.

Creator:

Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker.

Published/Created:

[London? :
s.n.,
1829?]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching, hand-colored, on wove paper ; plate mark 249 x 353 mm., on sheet 280 x 410 mm.

Notes:

Title from text above image.
Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour.
Date from online British Museum catalogue.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.

Abstract:

Satire against corruption with an image of a huge automaton representing the new London University (later University College, London) tramples over greedy clerics, doctors, lawyers and the crown. Five lines of text below image: "I saw a vision, a giant form appeard, it's eys where [sic] burning lights even of Gas, and on its learned head it bore A Crown of many towers, It's Body was an Engine yea of steam it's arms where [corn?] and the legs with which it stode like unto presses that men called printers use, from whence felt ever and anon small Books that fed the little people of the Earth, It rose and in it's hand it tool a Broom to sweep the rubish [sic] from the face of the land, the Special pleaders & thier [sic] wigs also & the Quack Doctors also and the ghosts & those tha twhear Horns & the Crowns of those kigns that set themselv's above the laws & the Delays in Chancery it utterly destroy'd, likewiase it sweept from the Clergy every Plurality, Nevertheless the Lawyers & the Parsons & divers others kick't up a great dust!!!"

Topics:

Avarice.
Balloons (Aircraft)
Clergy.
Demons.
Education, Higher--Great Britain.
Justice.
Lawyers.
Machinery.
Physicians.
Rulers.
Steam.

Topics:

University College, London.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1829.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1829.

Format:

Image

Rights:

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Call Number:

829.00.00.15+

Orbis Record:

9592494

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr13206

OID:

10970437

PID:

digcoll:975363