File:The man wot patronises the button makers (BM 1948,0214.957).jpg

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The man wot patronises the button makers   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Published by: Gabriel Shire Tregear

Printed by: Dean & Co
Title
The man wot patronises the button makers
Description
English: Above the design as a second title: 'A Real Brummagem Boy'. George IV stands by the base of a pillar (right) holding a top-hat in his right hand, a glove in his left. He wears his naturalistic wig, and a coat with ribbon and star, with knee-breeches, much as in portraits, but is spangled with buttons, large and small. Buttons arranged to form crowns, ornament the skirts of his coat; buttons decorate hat, breeches, and shoes. 1830
Hand-coloured lithograph
Depicted people Associated with: George IV, King of the United Kingdom
Date 1830
date QS:P571,+1830-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 286 millimetres (On the bottomhalf, the edges have been cut and rounded.)
Width: 184 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1948,0214.957
Notes

(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954)

On account of distress a deputation of journeymen button-makers from Birmingham visited London and the King accepted a gift of gilt buttons, which accordingly "is become fashionable in the ball and drawing room and consequently will be generally adopted throughout the country". 'Aris's Birmingham Gazette', 1 Mar. 1830. See also 'Bell's Life in London', 11 and 18 Apr. They were again plunged into distress by George IV's death (cf. No. 16191): "the trade of plain buttons which depends for its prosperity on the prevailing fashion of the polite world, was precipitated into its present deplorable condition". Memorial to William IV, ibid., 13 Sept. For industrial distress see No. 16032.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1948-0214-957
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