File:The bull of Gotham (BM 1868,0808.4514).jpg
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[edit]The bull of Gotham
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The bull of Gotham |
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| Description |
English: Wilkes in his alderman's gown approaches the Mansion House riding upon a bull; in his left hand is a whip. The bull has a human face and its forelegs are those of a man. It wears a long furred robe and mayoral chain. Behind walks a man in a furred gown, playing a Welsh harp decorated with a stag's head. This represents the election of Bull, Wilkes's protégé, as Lord Mayor, see BMSat 5129. The man playing the harp is Watkin Lewes, Sheriff 1772-3 and knighted Feb. 1773. See BMSat 4880, 5155, &c, and 'City Biography', 1800, p. 16. For his attitude in the quarrels among the city patriots see 'Oxford Magazine', x. 227-31. 1 December 1773
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| Depicted people | Representation of: Frederick Bull | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1773 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
1868,0808.4514 |
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| Notes |
Accompanying magazine article below the print (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) >From the 'Westminster Magazine', i. 669. The text 'A Canonical Fragment', which accompanies the woodcut, is an attack on Wilkes: "He was of the tribe of the Wilkites of the race of the Jews and his father's name was Israel. Now this man was a hypocrite, a dissembler of the truth, and great was his cunning: and he laid false snares and gained the hearts of the People, insomuch that they despised their Rulers, and him only did they obey." He determined to humble those of the City who had remonstrated with him by causing a Bull-calf to rule over them: "Behold ye people of Gotham, I bring you a chief ruler and a Head of the Elders!" For other anti-Wilkite satires, see BMSat 4326, 4887, 5103, 5130, 5245. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4514 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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