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Raising the wind by Royal Authority   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Robert Seymour

Printed by: Charles Motte
Published by: Thomas McLean
Title
Raising the wind by Royal Authority
Description
English: Two old-clothes men (left), aged and bearded Jews, bargain for the discarded gold-laced uniforms of two officers, one of whom lounges on two Windsor chairs, while the other leans against his chair. Both officers are very plainly dressed, have small moustaches without whiskers, wear flat forage-caps and smoke cigars. A short jacket is displayed scarecrow-wise on a stand and ticketed '£5 4 0'. The Jews bid competitively, holding between them a heavily braided tunic: 'Thirty Pounds for the Lot', at ascending sums up to: 'Mine got! fifty'. On the floor are the Jews' bundles, a pile of hats, and embroidered uniforms, with a single glass (reversed) and bottle of Cape wine (symbol of regimental austerity). Below the title: 'His Majesty intends diminishing the extravagant expense of the Military Officers Dresses. "See the Papers"'. July 12 1830
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Depicted people Associated with: William IV, King of the United Kingdom
Date 1830
date QS:P571,+1830-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 233 millimetres (image)
Width: 345 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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1868,0808.9197
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(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954)

William IV's first act, within a few hours of his accession, was to simplify the uniform of the Guards. 'Croker Papers', 1884, ii. 67. His intentions "on all he means to do when he is "King William" . . . seem confined at present [16 Apr. 1830] to changes in uniform. He means to make the Blues 'red', and to have gold lace for all the Line and silver lace for all the Militia". Ellenborough, 'Diary', 1881, ii. 222. Ellenborough records, 26 June: "The only innovations I yet hear of are in the dress of regiments." Ibid. ii. 279. For the exotic uniforms ordered by the late King cf. No. 13202, &c. See also Nos. 16180, 16181, 16267.
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