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Robert Seymour
1798-1836
The political stomach pump
wood engraving
71 x 87 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2119
Published:
[London] : [William Strange], [ca. 1834]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Probably detached from one of four issues of Whiggeries and waggeries, London : William Strange, 1834. This publication reprinted wood engravings by Robert Seymour, Robert Cruikshank, and others which had previously appeared-- with different captions-- in Figaro in London, also published by Strange. The identical image appeared in Figaro in London, no. 6, 1832, with the title Case of surfeit in a bishop.
Summary:
An almost spherical bishop sits in a low arm-chair. Grey, standing behind, plies a stomach-pump inscribed "Radical Reform". Brougham sits with a large basin on his knees filled with the "Tithes Pluralities &c &c &c" which gush from the pump.
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