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Staunch reformers.
Description
English: A dense crowd of men, T.Q.L. figures in the foreground, fills the space at a London street-corner, the heads being studies in facial expression. In the centre a man holding a large black-bordered broadside headed 'The . Black . List' stands between two men in shirt-sleeves, both selling broadsides, one from a basket, the other from a wallet inscribed 'The Reform Budget'. The latter holds a placard on a pole topped by a red cap: 'Tom Paine's Rights of Man—one penny!!!' These three, and two others who peer over their shoulders, are ruffianly and scowling; one of the latter holds up a banner-placard, 'Union is Strength'; a similar banner is 'Reform No Taxes'. On the right is a boy with a makeshift banner tied to a broom and inscribed 'The King is the Friend of His People!!!' [cf. BM Satires No. 16836]. Behind (left) is a sign over an inn doorway: a royal crown, and the words Support The Crown. In the lower margin are three inscriptions:


[1] "My task is done, if asked to own"
"My party, I would answer—none,"
"Whig, Radical or Tory"
"I rank myself among the friends"
"Of those who, scorning private ends,"
"Seek England's weal and glory"
[2] "Party is the madness of many [for the gain of a few, Swift]"
[3] The Cries of London for 1831. 1831


Hand-coloured lithograph
Depicted people Associated with: Thomas Paine
Date 1831
date QS:P571,+1831-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 285 millimetres
Width: 339 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1948,0214.954
Notes

(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954) A picture, realistic in spirit, of the excitement after the defeat of the second Reform Bill, see No. 16797. The broadside depicted is evidently a black-bordered broadside headed "BLACK LIST! being the Annual Amount of Pickings of the Peers and their families who voted against the Reform Bill in the House of Lords, on Saturday, Oct. 8. 1831", "Printed Published and compiled by W. P. Chubb . . ." for a penny, an inflammatory sheet (B.M.L. 1881. c. 7/39; also a copy in the Place Coll., set 17); it was "Re-printed by R. Menzies, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh—Price Twopence" as an election broadside in 1832 (B.M.L. 826. 1. 28/6); see Nos. 16843, 16999.

Image printed on India paper.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1948-0214-954
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