John Bull, or, An Englishman's fireside! [graphic].

Creator:

Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[ca. 1833]

Physical Description:

1 print : wood engraving on wove paper ; sheet 42 x 27 cm

Notes:

Title from text below image.
Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue.
Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue.
Wood engraving with letterpress text.
Five lines of text above image: Here's a pretty pass things are come to! This is observing the Sabbath with a vengeance! ...

Abstract:

Satire on attempts to enforce Observance of the Sabbath. John Bull sits miserably in a corner of a room. In the five lines etched at the top of image, we learn that he has no food or tobacco and is unable to go out for fear of the 'Arm'd Blue Devil' (i.e., a bearded 'bobby' or a Metropolitan Policeman, a member of the force founded by Sir Robert Peel in 1829) who can be seen through a window with a cracked pane. John Bull complainant about "Observing the Sabbath with a vengeance" is a response to Sir Andrew Agnew, the Member of Parliament for Wigtownshire, attempt to enforce better Observance of the Sabbath through the introduction of four bills to the House of Commons between 1830 and 1847. On his third attempt Charles Dickens wrote 'Sunday Under Three Heads' (1836), a personal attack on Agnew, whom he described as a fanatic, motivated by resentment of the idea that those poorer than himself might have any pleasure in life. Agnew left Parliament in 1837, ending the campaign.

Variant Titles:

Englishman's fireside!
The political drama ; no. 4

Topics:

Agnew, Andrew,--1793-1849.
Caricatures and cartoons.
Distress.
Interiors.
John Bull (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons.
Police--Great Britain.
Political satire, English--19th century.
Sabbath legislation--Great Britain--19th century.
Starvation.

Topics:

Drake, G., active 1832-1836, publisher.

Language:

English

Genre:

Satires (Visual works)--England--1833.
Wood engravings--England--London--1833.

Format:

Image

Rights:

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Call Number:

75
G750
833
840.00.00.31+
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 1

Orbis Record:

9866678

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr13947

OID:

10971592

PID:

digcoll:975828