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The triumph of turbulence or Mother Cambria possessed.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Moses Griffith (probably)

Published by: William Humphrey
Title
The triumph of turbulence or Mother Cambria possessed.
Description
English: Shipley, Dean of St. Asaph, is drawn (right to left) in a small four-wheeled chaise by six goats with bells (indicating folly) on their horns. He sits complacently, displaying the leg on which is a shackle with a short length of chain. The goats are prancing, the near leader stands on his hind legs. Behind the chaise (right) is a large pillar surmounted by a ball inscribed 'Mansfield' and, below, 'Seditious perhaps Treasonable'. In front is a small open pillory. In the foreground (left) is 'Mother Cambria', wearing a fool's cap and bells; she stands in profile to the 1. holding a baton on which is a small head of the dean; one foot rests on a crown, with the other she is kicking a cap of 'Liberty', which is in the air, reversed. By it are the words: 'Liperty is her foot-pall now'; by the crown: 'Tamm Kingss & Crouns'. A winged demon applies a pair of bellows to her ear. The chaise is crossing a barren plain with mountains in the distance. In the upper left corner of the design four men in clerical dress stand round a bonfire which is beside a church; two wave their hats, one holding up a laurel wreath, while a figure is suspended head-downwards above the flames. This scene is inscribed 'Spiritual pastimes'. Across the print is engraved:



'I've escap'd with my Ears & from Newgate you find;
And as to my honour, that's left far behind;
Which all the World knows, but Welch Goats, whom I blind.' 23, 24 December 1784


Etching with use of the rocker.
Depicted people Associated with: William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 217 millimetres
Width: 275 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,4.117
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) This appears to satirize the rejoicings on Shipley's return to St. Asaph through Shrewsbury, Wrexham, and Ruthin after the abandonment of the prosecution for libel which had lasted nearly two years, see BMSat 6669.

Corrigendum, Vol. VIII, p. xlv: The original watercolour, probably by Moses Griffith, and a collection of pamphlets relating to the case of Dean Shipley are in the National Library of Wales (MS.2598 C).
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-4-117
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