The last of the Boroughbridges

“Wetherell (left), an invalid in dressing-gown and night-cap, reclines in an arm-chair, exhausted but laughing. Facing him stands Eldon in deep dejection, saying, with both hands raised, ‘Poor Boroughbridge! how is it with you?’ Cumberland, on the extreme right, stands behind Eldon, covering his face with his handkerchief; he says: ‘Facetious to the last!–It is quite affecting!’ Horace Twiss leans on the back of Wetherell’s chair; Chandos, dressed as a woman, stoops over the patient; both are smiling. Wetherell: ‘All over my friends! just in time to hear my “last speech and dying words”! But dont look so grave about it, I assure you we treat the matter in our house as if it was an excellent joke–to be sent out of the world with a dose of Russell’s purge”! is so droll; & then, we are to have such a merry funeral’. On a commode is a bottle labelled ‘Russell’s purge’. Peel, smiling, and Goulburn, holding a handkerchief to his face and leaning on Peel, watch from the background.”–British Museum online catalogue.

• Creator: Doyle, John, 1797-1868, lithographer.
  
• Title: The last of the Boroughbridges [graphic] / HB [monogram].
  
• Publication: London : Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket, March 7th, 1831.
  
• Manufacture: [London] : Printed by C. Motte, 25 Leicester Sqre.

Catalog Record

831.03.07.01+

Acquired March 2018

Protecting the Sabbath!!!, or, Coersion for England

A satire on the puritanical message of strictly observing the Sabbath. A puritan stands on a barrel marked ‘St. Andrew’, his arms held out making a cross. He cries: ‘Clear the Streets of all Evil doers – Remember ye keep Severely Strict the Sabbath day…’ Surrounding him, portly puritans carrying clubs attack people going about their Sunday business.

• Printmaker: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker.
  
• Title: Protecting the Sabbath!!!, or, Coersion for England [graphic].
  
• Publication: [London] : G. Tregear, 1833.

Catalog Record 

833.04.09.01+

Acquired March 2018

Madrid – a false alarm

Fourth page of a monthly magazine that consisted of four pages; included on this page are five individually-titled images.

• Printmaker: Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker.
  
• Title: Madrid – a false alarm [graphic] ; Dieting in Germany ; Dutchmen blocking up the navigation of the Scheldt ; Portugal ; Perfects and imperfects, or, Dreadful times.
  
• Publication: [London] : [T. Mclean], [1 October 1832]
  
• Manufacture: [London] : Printed by Maguire, Lemercier & Co., 24 Leicester Sq.

Catalog Record 

832.10.01.01+

Acquired March 2018

The last of the Boroughbridges

“Wetherell (left), an invalid in dressing-gown and night-cap, reclines in an arm-chair, exhausted but laughing. Facing him stands Eldon in deep dejection, saying, with both hands raised, ‘Poor Boroughbridge! how is it with you?’ Cumberland, on the extreme right, stands behind Eldon, covering his face with his handkerchief; he says: ‘Facetious to the last!–It is quite affecting!’ Horace Twiss leans on the back of Wetherell’s chair; Chandos, dressed as a woman, stoops over the patient; both are smiling. Wetherell: ‘All over my friends! just in time to hear my “last speech and dying words”! But dont look so grave about it, I assure you we treat the matter in our house as if it was an excellent joke–to be sent out of the world with a dose of Russell’s purge”! is so droll; & then, we are to have such a merry funeral’. On a commode is a bottle labelled ‘Russell’s purge’. Peel, smiling, and Goulburn, holding a handkerchief to his face and leaning on Peel, watch from the background.”–British Museum online catalogue, description of the original version of the print.

• Title: The last of the Boroughbridges [graphic] / HB [monogram].
  
• Publication: [London] : Pub. by S. Gans, Southampton Street, Strand, March 14th, 1831.

Catalog Record 

831.03.14.01+

Acquired March 2018

The party wot drives the sovereign

Queen Adelaide, side-saddle on a horse with a man’s face, Lord Grey, using spurs and a riding crop to press him into the ‘Slough of Despond’, joining other politicians including Wellington. Grey says, ” Don’t drive so hard; you will worry me to death.” A signpost ‘To Reform’ points the other way. A group behind her cry, “Go it, Addy, push him on, don’t let him make any, without he first makes us.”

• Creator: Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, lithographer.
  
• Title: The party wot drives the sovereign [graphic] / HH [monogram].
  
• Publication: [London] : Published by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, London, 1832.

Catalog Record

832.00.00.49+

Acquired June 2017

The itinerant chancellor

Four rows of designs with one to three designs in each, individually titled.

• Creator: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer, artist.
  
• Title: The itinerant chancellor [graphic] ; [and 9 other designs] / C.J. Grant invent., del. & lith.
  
• Publication: London : Published by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Square …, [1 October 1834]
  
• Manufacture: [London] : Printed by Dean & Munday …

Catalog Record 

834.10.01.01+

Acquired November 2017

Bengal troops on the line of march : a panaoramic sketch

Plate 1 of 6

• Printmaker: Ludlow, William Andrew.
  
• Title: Bengal troops on the line of march : a panaoramic sketch / by an officer of that army [i.e. Capt. Ludlow].
  
• Published: [London] : Day and Haghe’s Zincy, [1850?]

Catalog Record

Folio 81 835 L945

Acquired November 2017

You see my dartur vears her hair like the Queen…

A homely, heavy-set girl (left) sits on a chair while an artist in spectacles (right) sits and sketches her in profile while her coarse mother in a mop cap smiles at the artist who looks back in surprise at her comment to him. Below is a clipping with the words, “You see my dartur vears her hair like the queen”. Possibly a satire directed at the new Queen, Victoria.

• Creator: Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, lithographer.
  
• Title: You see my dartur vears her hair like the Queen, consekently I should vish her to be taken as sich [graphic] / HH [monogram].
  
• Publication: [London?] : [publisher not identified], [not before 1837?]

Catalog Record 

837.00.00.42

Acquired March 2018

In commemoration of the centenary of the birthday of Roscoe

An invitation to an 1853 event, the Roscoe Centenary Festival, sponsored by the city of Liverpool in honor of William Roscoe, Liverpool banker, poet, writer and collector, among the founders of the Liverpool Society for the Encouragement of the Arts of Painting and Design and Whig MP for Liverpool; also first president of the Liverpool Royal Institution. Opponent of the slave trade, he published several pamphlets on the subject and was elected on an anti-slavery platform. After retiring in 1796, he studied botany and opened the Liverpool Botanic Garden in 1802. The invitation shows classical figures representing his many gifts, surrounding a ship, representing his business interests.

• Title: In commemoration of the centenary of the birthday of Roscoe [graphic] / Mayer inv. ; Worrall lith.
  
• Publication: [Liverpool] : [publisher not identified], [1853]

Catalog Record

File 66 853 R81

Acquired July 2017

The drunkard’s progress

A city scene with a line of poor men, women, and children lined up from a money lender’s shop to the “Temple of Juniper: Best gin”. In the background crowds stand at the doorways of the workhouse (right) and the county gaol (left).

• Printmaker: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.
  
• Title: The drunkard’s progress [graphic] : from the pawnbroker’s to the gin shop from thence to the workhouse thence to the goal & ultimately to the scaffold.
  
• Publication: [London] : [J. Kendrick], January 1st, 1834.

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

834.01.01.01

Acquired January 2016