Details

Subject(s)

• Political cartoons—Great Britain—19th century [Browse]
• Caricature [Browse]
• Anthropomorphism in art [Browse]
• Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Great Britain—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Rats—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Dogs—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• John Bull (Symbolic character)—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]

Notes

• Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
• Depiction: Caricature; political cartoon. Allegorical scene. John Bull encourages Eldon who, in the form of a dog, is biting a rat bearing the head of Wellington; other rats with human heads scurry away.
• Signed with image of Paul Pry [male figure with cane], lower left.

Source acquisition

Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.

References

British Museum. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, [1978]. No. 15699 (gives date as c. 1829/03/--).

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