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The Charles St gang sent to quod for burking poor Reform Bill.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Published by: I B Brookes

Printed by: W & J O Clerk
Title
The Charles St gang sent to quod for burking poor Reform Bill.
Description
English: Brougham, in wig and gown, carrying the mace against his shoulder, marches along in profile to the right, holding a chain attached to the wrists of a string of felons; he says 'Come along Rogues'. The first pair, linked together by handcuffs, are Wetherell in his usual slovenly dress and out-at-elbows, and Cumberland as a seedy swell (cf. BM Satires No. 16699). The former, with his finger in his mouth, says: 'I think I'll peach'. Cumberland, quoting Gay's "Beggar's Opera": 'If laws were made | For every degree | That a Rich Rogue shod suffer | As well as me | I wonder there's not | Better Company | on Tyburn Tree'. Next are Peel, as "the Cad", see BM Satires No. 15734, &c.; and Wellington in a soldier's jacket. The latter quotes eight lines from the "Beggar's Opera" beginning 'Tis Woman who seduces all Mankind', and adds 'Oh Dear me what will poor Mrs A. [Arbuthnot] do now'. Peel: 'O she'l do very well on the Country allowance you may consider it as good as a Pension for her'. Last, chained to the linked wrists of Peel and Wellington, is Eldon as an old woman, weeping with her apron to her eye. c. May 1832
Hand-coloured lithograph
Depicted people Associated with: Harriet Arbuthnot
Date 1832
date QS:P571,+1832-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 281 millimetres
Width: 365 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1868,0808.9435
Notes

(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954)

One of many prints on the Tory disaster, see No. 17032, &c. For Wellington and Peel as "Burkers" cf. No. 15707; for Wellington and Mrs. Arbuthnot see No. 15717; for her pension, No. 16554, &c.; for Charles Street, No. 16664. A county allowance was given to the wives of men called up for the Militia.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-9435
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