File:The Raree Show executed for the benefit of Mr Somebody at the expence of John Bull (BM 1868,0808.5686).jpg
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The Raree Show executed for the benefit of Mr Somebody at the expence of John Bull ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Print made by: William Dent
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Title |
The Raree Show executed for the benefit of Mr Somebody at the expence of John Bull |
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Description |
English: The trial of Hastings in Westminster Hall is travestied as a raree show in a booth. On the ground spectators fight for access to the booth; on a gallery above their heads Burke, Sheridan, and Fox as clowns and zanies proclaim the attractions of the show; above their heads hang large pictorial placards on rollers, illustrating the shows to be seen within. The crowd struggling to enter the door (left) of the booth is composed of ladies and gentlemen among whom is a peer in his robes; they are being controlled by Foot Guards with muskets. In the foreground George III, wearing a porter's knot, carries on his shoulders Thurlow in his hat and wig but with the body of a bear or demon with a barbed tail inscribed 'Defence'. Thurlow says "Make room for Precedence". On the King's Garter ribbon hangs a jewel inscribed 'Bulse' (see BMSat 6966, &c). The Prince of Wales stands beside them clenching his fists. A soldier bars the way to a would-be spectator on the extreme right. Below the gallery are bills posted on the booth (left to right): [1] 'A new Song to the Tune of Tantatarara, Rogues all'; [2] a bill headed with a pair of spectacles is inscribed: 'From the left side of the booth may be seen Alexander the Little' [? George III]; [3] one headed by an opera-glass is, 'From the right may be seen Alexander the Great' [Hastings, cf. BMSat 7275]; [4] 'Comparison between Alexander the Great and the Dey of Algiers a Farce'; [5] 'To be seen here the Characters of Tamerlane and Bajazet'; [6] 'Impeachment with a grand Procession'; [7] 'A Tragi-comi-Exhibition called the Nabob in Purgatory'; [8] 'A very curious black Bear' [Thurlow].
Etching with hand-colouring |
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Depicted people | Associated with: Edmund Burke | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1788 date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.5686 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) For Hastings's trial see BMSat 7269, &c. Sir G. Elliot writes of the sitting of 18 Feb.: 'Burke has exceeded his former excesses to-day, and in one of his excesses he did not, I believe, leave a dry eye in the whole assembly.' 'Life and Letters', i. 195. See also Mme D'Arblay, 'Diary', 1905, iii. 408 ff. For Hastings and Thurlow see BMSat 7278, &c. The King never attended the trial. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5686 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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- Satirical prints in the British Museum
- Prints by William Dent in the British Museum
- Theatre in art
- Dey of Algiers
- Alexander the Great in art
- 1788 cartoons
- Caricatures of George III of the United Kingdom
- Rogue's March
- Edmund Burke
- Caricatures of people of India
- George III of the United Kingdom in 1788
- Impeachment trial of Warren Hastings