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A free born Englishman!   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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A free born Englishman!
Description
English: A grotesque man, lean and ragged, stands in profile to the right, his mouth closed by a padlock inscribed 'No Grumbling'. His hands are tied behind his back, but his left hand awkwardly holds a pen and a paper: 'Freedom of the Press | Transportation'. He wears heavy leg-irons chained to an iron ring round his waist. One of his feet, bare except for fragments of leather, rests on 'Magna Charta', a book with torn binding, the other on a torn paper: 'Bill of Rights', across which lies the handle of a headsman's axe whose blade (left) is inscribed 'Law of Libel'. On the ground (right) is his cap of 'Liberty'. A bird pecks at his bald head.


Behind (left) is a tumbledown house on which is a placard: 'Mr Bull removed by the Tax Gatherers over the Way'. In front of it sits a woman; a child, a naked infant, and a dead or dying dog are beside her. Before the group is the inscription 'Free discussion - a farce | Right of Petitioning, reserved to Families only'. On the right is a debtors' prison, a man walks past it, out-at-elbows and empty-handed, trying to ignore the appealing hands and faces pushed through the bars of the window, above which projects a sign: 'Pray Remember the poor Debtors'. Below the window is the contribution box. Beneath is an inscription: 'Tampering at Elections - allowed to Ministers only!! Lord Lieutennants of Counties & other Local Authorities must be tools of government - for Necessary Purposes, employ Clerical Magestrates'. Beneath the title: 'The Admiration of the World!!! And the Envy of Surrounding Nations!!!!!' 1795? [See Curatorial Comment]


Hand-coloured etching
Date circa 1795
date QS:P571,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 328 millimetres (cropped)
Width: 220 millimetres (cropped)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1935,0522.12.3
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) Imprint cut off. 'No Grumbling' suggests that the print was originally issued in connexion with the Bills of 1795. Some of the inscriptions may relate to 1819. Apparently a satire on the Treason and Sedition Bills, see BMSat 8687, &c., and probably also on the Scottish Trials of 1793-4, see BMSats 8359-63, 8506-12. For the padlocked mouth cf. BMSat 8693, &c.; for 'No Grumbling', BMSat 8646, &c. Cf. BMSat 8710. Copied by G. Cruikshank, Reid, No. 228; see also ibid., No. 229. Reissued, Fores, 15 Dec. 1819. (A. de R. xv. 194.)

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George Cruikshank copied a print of this design in 1813 (Reid 228), and a lithograph of 1819 by or attributed to him uses the same design (BMSat 13287A). BMSat 13287 may or may not be a copy of this lithograph. Cruikshank made another design in 1813 with the same subject and a similar title (BMSat 12037).
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-12-3
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