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The political, toy-man

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Robert Cruikshank
1789-1856

The political, toy-man

Published

[London] : Pub'd by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street, July 1824

hand colored etching
33.3 x 23 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2225
Notes
Trimmed to within plate mark.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Brougham, in wig and gown, stands in Old Square, Lincolns Inn, the roof of the Hall, which forms a background, being so inscribed; houses are on the right. He carries on his head, which is in profile to the right, a tray, inscribed London College; this supports a neo-Gothic building with pinnacles and a clock-tower; tiny trees and figures in academic dress round the building show the scale. From its four corners rise labels inscribed in large letters, Etymology, Orthography, Prosody, Syntax. He says "Who'I [sic] buy? very cheap, very free." From one shoulder hangs a brief-bag inscribed Subscriptions; from the other a ribbon supporting a handsomely bound book: List of Share Holders. Round his waist is a hoop which also encircles the waists of five little puppets: a man in archaic court-dress, holding a feathered hat, next a stout lady holding a fan and a large purse,, a fashionably dressed man in top-hat and furred and frogged coat, and Lord Eldon holding the mace and the Purse of the Great Seal. On the ground is a toy horse on wheels ridden by a yokel in a smock.

Associated names
Humphrey, G., active approximately 1820, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department