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Original design for a King's arms   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: John Doyle (HB)

Printed by: A Ducôte
Published by: Thomas McLean
Title
Original design for a King's arms
Description
English: No. 374. The British Royal coat of arms, with the lion to left replaced with a man wearing a wig resembling a lion's mane (Lord Brougham), and the unicorn to right replaced with a man with a horn growing from his forehead; their tailcoats are turned up to form the animals' tails. 17 February 1835
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Depicted people Representation of: William Cobbett
Date 1835
date QS:P571,+1835-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 270 millimetres
Width: 321 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1857,1222.95
Notes

Text from 'An Illustrative Key to the Political Sketches of H.B.', London 1841:

For genuine drollery there is nothing, in the whole collection, which surpasses this sketch. That two politicians, who, at this period, and for many years previously, entertained such adverse feelings with regard to each other, should be brought into juxta-position on any occasion, is matter of surprize; but that H.B. should have found a proper opportunity for bringing them to co-operate, so as to allow of his assigning to each a character so suited to his outward appearance, was a piece of good fortune not to have been expected. Of the exact resemblance of Mr. Cobbett to the Lion Rampant-Gardant of Herald's College, we are not left in doubt; for in that part of the shield in which the arms of Scotland are quartered, we see his prototype in the same precise attitude. Sir Francis Burdett's resemblance to the unicorn is quite as striking; and now, to gratify the impatience of the reader, to be informed of the circumstances which gave H.B. authority for bringing them together as supporters of the crown, it remains to be told, first, of Sir Francis Burdett, that being pressed by his constituents in Westminster to acquaint them how he should vote in case of a motion to declare that the House of Commons had no confidence in the Ministry, he stated most positively that he was not, and never would be, a party-man; that he had always endeavoured to uphold the prerogatives of the crown, and would never join in compelling the King to make choice of a Ministry from one party only. Next, with regard to Mr. Cobbett, in the debate on the choice of a Speaker (19th February, 1835), his speech ran thus:- "The last time I had the pleasure of hearing the voice of my constituents, they voted an address of thanks to the King for having dismissed his late Ministers. I, therefore, am determined to do nothing which has a tendency to force those Ministers back upon the King." And the fact was, that neither of these two honourable members voted on the question of the election of a Speaker, or the amendment to the address.
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