John Bull playing a rubber

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John Bull playing a rubber
engraving
5 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2208
Published: 
[London] : J.L. Marks, 1832.
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Printed above image: No. 4. The Chronologist.

Summary: 

A game at skittles, the pins carved to represent the heads of Tories. J.B., a plump, carbuncled "cit", stands over them, menacingly holding a 'Reform Ball', with which he has knocked down seven. William IV watches in anxious dismay, hands in pockets, knees knocking together; he says: 'I'll bet a Crown Jonney you don't knock 'em down in two throws'. John: 'Done for a Sovereign Billy'. The pins already down are [the bishop of] 'Exeter' (with the carbuncled face of Phillpotts), 'Wellington', 'Cumberland', 'Londonderry','Sir R. Peel', with two that are barely characterized. Still erect are 'Wetherell' and 'Eldon'. Grey and Brougham, holding a broom, watch from the far side of a paling, behind which is seen the Queen as a broom-girl, a small crown on her peasant's cap, crying 'Puy a Proom'. A placard on a pole is inscribed 'The Union Skittle ground NB. No Trust'.

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