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A Loggerhead quarrel, between the cuty and surrey or, a grand set-to between Mr H-S-, & Sir J-S-, two honorable members of a certain Gt house, in the comitte room, on friday May 20th 1814.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: George Cruikshank

Published by: John Fairburn
Title
A Loggerhead quarrel, between the cuty and surrey or, a grand set-to between Mr H-S-, & Sir J-S-, two honorable members of a certain Gt house, in the comitte room, on friday May 20th 1814.
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English: Two men hurl ink-pots at each other in a Committee Room of the House of Commons; a chair overturns (left) and the table with its green cloth tilts over. Both are very thin, the younger (right), who has short hair with a whisker, and wears short gaiters, has hurled an ink-pot from which pens scatter, above the head of his opponent. The other (left), who wears powdered hair with a short pigtail, raises his ink-pot, and is about to hurl it. They are Sir James Shaw, M.P. for the City, and George Holme Sumner, M.P. for Surrey. One (right), apparently Shaw, says:


"I've flung the Loggerhead Inkstand at his Loggerhead
If he had'nt bob'd & miss'd it, I'd kill'd him stone dead"
The other says :
"Should this Loggerhead but hit him it will knock him down flat
If this Loggerhead meets his Loggerhead, he's as dead as a Rat."
On the table are documents, one inscribed 'New Post-office Bill'. Six M.P.'s watch with scandalized consternation from the right and from across the table. They are freely sketched. One on the extreme right exclaims "Pshaw! Pshaw!!" Others say "Order Order."
24 May 1814


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Sir James Shaw
Date 1814
date QS:P571,+1814-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 247 millimetres

Width: 350 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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1868,0808.12782
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(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949) There is no record in the 'Commons Journals' or 'Parl. Debates' for 20 May 1814 of a Committee on a Post-office Bill, but the question was discussed in Common Council on 24 Mar. 'Examiner', 1814, p. 204. The 'Fracas' was the subject of an epigram in the 'Scourge', vii. 506 (June 1814).

Reid, No. 333. Cohn, No. 1326.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-12782
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