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Cleansing the Augean stable.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Henry Heath

Published by: S W Fores
Title
Cleansing the Augean stable.
Description
English: A rushing torrent or waterfall, inscribed 'Public Determination', sweeps as from a broken dam through a building and pours through a huge gap in a wall into the Thames (right). It overturns the throne, whose tilting canopy projects from the summit of the cascade, and sweeps away opponents of Reform, among whom are six bishops. Wellington flees before the advancing water with greater agility than the others, trampling on a prostrate bishop; he says: 'Did not believe in such a torrent'. Cumberland lies on his back under a cascade, saying, 'We shall meet with watery Greraves' [e crossed out] [alluding to Lord Graves, see BM Satires No. 16011, &c.]. Behind Wellington is Lyndhurst, clutching the gown of the fleeing Archbishop of Canterbury; he says 'I wish I had never put B before A, it has turned Alpha into Omega'. Londonderry clings to the canopy of the throne, saying, 'Why we never dream't of this'. Eldon crouches on the back of a struggling bishop who is spouting water. Arms and legs project from the flood on which a bishop's wig is floating. A man in back view clutches the crumbling wall. The Thames (right) is covered with boats whose occupants applaud the catastrophe, as do tiny figures on the riverside. c. May 1832
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Depicted people Associated with: John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon
Date 1832
date QS:P571,+1832-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 275 millimetres
Width: 359 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.9440
Notes

(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954)

See No. 17032, &c. Lyndhurst's fatal motion, see No. 17030, was to take the enfranchisement clauses before the disfranchisement (Schedule A) clauses.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-9440
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