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Fiddlestick versus Broomstick   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Robert Seymour

Published by: Thomas McLean
Printed by: Charles Motte
Title
Fiddlestick versus Broomstick
Description
English: A Mayoral banquet, the Lord Mayor, Key, in his robes, sits tipsily in his chair of state (left), saying, 'your very good health Mister Paganini!' On his left Brougham stands with the tips of his fingers on the table, prevented from speaking by the (repeated) shouts of 'Paganini' which rise from the company. His ugly features are sourly resentful; Grey sits gloomily on his left holding his glass. These two look away from Paganini, the centre of the design who stands on his chair, next Grey. He holds bow and violin, and turns with a pleased smile to the right, where all the guests applaud, shouting 'Bravo Paganini'; 'Bravo Bravo Bravo Bravo'; 'Lets hear some Harmony'; 'Ay Ay let's hear Bagoninny Baganniny'. Shouts from (unseen) guests on the left include 'Music Music'; 'Attention for Paganini'; 'Silence for Paganini'. July 19 1831
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Depicted people Associated with: Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Date 1831
date QS:P571,+1831-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 213 millimetres (image)
Width: 352 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1857,1222.193
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(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954)

At a dinner at the Mansion House on 9 July, after the presentation of the Freedom of the City to Lord John Russell, Paganini entered in state, preceded by the stewards, mounted a chair and played a concerto. This was just before the toast to Russell was expected. Hobhouse, 'Recollections of a long Life', iv. 121. Brougham was affronted because Grey and not himself was called upon to return thanks for Ministers, and in replying to a panegyrical toast by the Mayor he would make no speech, but merely returned thanks: "He was so angry that the Duke of Richmond had great difficulty in persuading him not to propose the health of Paganini." Le Marchant, 'Memoirs of Viscount Althorp', 1876, p. 329.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1857-1222-193
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