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Satire on the Jewish Naturalization Act of 1753.
British Museum owns an original drawing of this composition attributed to Louis Philippe Boitard (BM Satires 3263).
Inserted as item 201 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Print shows a scene outside the west front of Saint Paul's, where the statue of Queen Ann lies in pieces on the ground and a figure clad in the robes of a peer stands in its stead on the pedastal with one arm resting on a copy of the Ten Commandments. An inscription on the base of the pedastal reads: The Most Noble Sampson Noedig [i.e. Gideon] D--- of ---". At left, the figure of Sir William Calvert is shown seated in a chair on the steps of Saint Paul's and undergoing a circumcision at the hands of a Jewish man with a straight razor, as a group of judges and bishops await their turn for the operation. Behind him hangs a body suspended from a gibbet, to which a member of the crowd points saying, "Ha Sir John you forgot to insure yourself". At right, a man (Sir Crisp Gascoyne) is shown manacled behind a barrel to the rear of a brewers dray as another man at far right flogs him with a cat-o-nine-tails, saying "You was angry at my Insp--t--ns on this grand affair" as the former says "I will be circumcised". Behind them, four men are engaged in pulling down the portico of the Mansion House, as a fifth looks on, saying "Down with the Vertue Hall to prevent future mischief".