A Godly company?!
[England] : Pub: by R. Pratt, 12 Broad St. Golden Square, [181-?]
Cartoon on a long, trimmed horizontal strip, possibly a portion of a larger design removed from a larger sheet; library's copy is irregularly cropped at left.
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Design features two vignettes; at left, a cat in a gown sits enthroned in a chair on top of a barrel, with two female feline attendants at far left, and a guard at right; she receives a long line of simian figures wearing wigs and coats, the foremost bearing a sceptor; above them a line of text reads, "The Mayor and Corporation to wait on your eminence"; a second scene at right shows at group of men around a table; one of them stands and proclaims, "I address myself to the Chair-I don't pretend an Horator, I am no Mostemis nor a Kickero [...] I say it is a burning shame to give a guinea a quart for green peas!!!"; and another man responds "Mr. Alderman is perfectly right, it is a burning shame."
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.