A Show Up!: P.14711-R

Current Location: In storage

Titles

A Show Up!
HB Sketches No. 216

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Doyle, John (HB)
Publisher: McLean, Thomas

Entities

Satirical print

Description

Lithograph (uncoloured) on white wove paper. Inlaid within a frame of buff wove paper (approx. height 360mm x width 515mm). Grey and Brougham display a peep-show to John Bull (bending down and peering through a hole in a board). The board proclaims: 'RAREE SHOW / NEW VIEW / of the / GLORIOUS TRIUMPH / of / REFORM!'. Grey, in the left foreground plays pan pipes and bangs a drum and Brougham, seen in profile on the right, blows a trumpet. Hume stands next to Brougham, his finger on his nose. Althorp in centre foreground leans forward to steal a purse from John Bull's pocket. He holds out a hat to the Tsar Nicholas of Russia, who stands at the far right. Behind Althorp is Palmerston (seen from behind) who talks to Peel. Signed with monogram at lower left: 'HB'. Title printed below the border: 'A SHOW UP!'. The publisher's details printed below left: 'Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket, Augt. 1st. 1832.'. A small, circular blind stamp at lower left: 'THOs. MCLEAN'. Printer's details below the border at lower right: 'A. Ducôté's Lithogy. No 70, St Martins Lane.'. Printed above the border at upper right: 'HB Sketches 216.'. See 17205_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, p.668.