File:The led bear. (BM 1868,0808.9312).jpg
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[edit]The led bear.
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The led bear. |
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| Description |
English: William IV as a dancing bear on a village green, his own head inset in that of the muzzled beast, stands on hind-legs. A chain attached to the bear's nose is held by Brougham (left) who cracks a whip, looking over his shoulder at the spectator with a cynical twisted smile. Grey (right), turning from the animal, gloomily plays the pipe and tabor. On the bear's head sits a little monkey wearing a jacket and a cap with a tricolour cockade and a pen-feather, and inscribed 'PR of T.B. U.' [? President of the Birmingham Union, i.e. T. Attwood, see BM Satires No. 16070, &c.]. The distressed bear holds behind its head, like a balancing-pole, a long sceptre. The performance is for the benefit of three schoolboys: O'Connell (left) watches with a pleased smile, while behind two more boys rush from the gateway of a [Charit]'y School by Thos Pain'; they are Hunt followed by Hume (in tartan). Beside the school is a dilapidated church, placarded 'To Be Let'. c. November 1831
Hand-coloured lithograph |
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Thomas Attwood | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1831 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Prints and Drawings |
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| Accession number |
1868,0808.9312 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954) For the Ministry and the King see No. 16673, &c. They are acting in the interests of the Radicals and free-thinkers (indicated by the school of T. Paine, who stands for republicanism and Deism). For hatred of the Church see No. 16805, &c. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-9312 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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