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The petition
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English: Brougham, in wig and gown, kneels on both knees in profile to the left, before William IV, who sits in a carved chair on a dais made absurd by being edged by a frill. The King wears a tall fool's cap decorated with bows, &c.; he leans forward to take from Brougham a 'Reformer's Petition'. Brougham: 'Dread Liege I have the honor to present a humble petition, signed by all the inhabitants of St Lukes Bedlam, and Hoxton praying Reform and that they may be let loose'. Through a large window behind him are seen the façades of 'St Lukes [Hosp]ital' and 'Bedlam', with heads looking from all the windows, shouting 'Reform for ever'; 'Down with the Drs'; 'I want to get out'; 'Broom for ever the Tea Dealer's friend'; 'Reform' [three times]; 'We want to be represented'; 'Let us out we will have Reform'; 'Let us Loose'; 'Let us out'. The King says: 'Ah!—this touches us nearly it must be considered of—These long existing abuses must be abolished'. The Duke of Gloucester, wearing a top-hat, holds the back of the King's chair, and bends forward to say: 'Who's Silly Billy now'. July 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
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Height: 271 millimetres
Width: 349 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.9415
Notes

(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954) Brougham had successfully argued for the sanity of a tea-dealer against the evidence of his relations and doctors, see No. 16425, &c. Gloucester was "Silly Billy", see 'Raikes's Journal' under date 3 Dec. 1834; he is reported by Gronow to have made this remark to a friend in the Lords apropos of William IV and Reform. 'Reminiscences', 1892, i. 165. Cf. No. 16613. The King's eccentricities on his accession, as in 1828, see No. 15546, &c, had provoked doubts of his sanity.

Advertised in 'The Satirist', 31 July 1831, in a list of "Anti-Reform and Reform Caricatures", "just published", by I. B. Brooks at 2s.; see No. 16738.

The initials IB are always deceptively written to suggest HB in reverse.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-9415
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