File:Charon's boat-or-topham's trip, with hood to hell. (BM 1868,0808.5784).jpg
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[edit]Charon's boat:-or-topham's trip, with hood to hell.
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Charon's boat:-or-topham's trip, with hood to hell. |
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English: Lord Hood (right) is seated in the stern of a boat facing Topham (left) who stands in the bows propelling the boat with a pole. Behind Hood is a grinning demon with wide-spread webbed wings who steers, manipulating the rudder with a pitchfork. Hood holds up his hands in terror; a serpent, inscribed 'Worm of Conscience', is twined round his arm and gnaws his breast. On the shore (left) which the boat approaches stands Cerberus, with three human heads. One has a pen behind his ear, his collar inscribed 'Frost' (secretary of Hood's committee), another has a medical implement attached to his collar showing that he is Churchill, an apothecary, the third has clerical bands showing that he is Horne Tooke, all of whom took an active part in the Westminster by-election on the side of Hood. Demons surround the boat on all sides, some in the air (in the smoke and flames which ascend from Hell), others swim menacingly towards Hood. A demon standing on clouds urinates a stream which forms 'The Evening Star', and is surrounded by a star resembling that appearing on the heading of 'The Star and Evening Advertiser'. Three demons fly towards Hood holding in their talons papers inscribed 'Bills' and 'Tradesmens Bills'. Papers fall or float beside the boat inscribed [1] 'Murder! Murder! Macnamara', [2] 'Tookes list of the Kill'd and Wounded', [3] 'Massacre of Skipmen', [4] 'Idesons Bad Votes', [5] 'Blue & Buff Assassins'. In the foreground a demon dances, holding a gridiron and frying-pan. A little imp seated by the water reads 'The Bottle of Wine & Butler' (see BMSat 7361). On the farther shore (right) a band of horned imps plays on marrow-bones and cleavers. 22 August 1788
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| Depicted people | Associated with: John Churchill | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1788 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1868,0808.5784 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) One of many satires on the Westminster by-election, see BMSat 7339, &c. J. W. Ideson (the active vestry-clerk of St. James's parish) published a list of 'bad votes' polled for Townshend. Tooke published a letter stating that several persons had died in St. Bartholomew's Hospital of wounds received in riots. The City coroner announced that he had held no inquests on such persons. 'London Chronicle', 7 and 16 Aug. 1788. Tooke also published a leaflet addressed to Fox as 'the Butcher of the People' saying that Macnamara (one of Hood's agents) was attacked first in advertisements and then by ruffians. B.M. Add. MSS. 27837, fo. 27; cf. BMSat 7477. Hood is being punished for election lies and violence, and is represented as fearing arrest for debt now that he is no longer a M.P. The heads of Hood and of Cerberus have been altered with heavy pen-strokes, probably by Gillray. Hood's nose has been grotesquely enlarged, and a cocked hat and pigtail have been added. A star with the word 'East' has been added to Topham's breeches, implying that he owns or edits the Star (the first evening newspaper). This might be inferred from the statement in the first number (3 May 1788), that it was 'undertaken by several gentlemen of property and character, who having large commerce with the World, are unavoidably engaged in giving and receiving intelligence through the medium of the public prints'. Cf. BMSat 7537. For Topham as a ministerial journalist see BMSat 7369; for his breeches, cf. BMSat 7330. For Frost (1750-1842) see 'State Trials', xxii. 471 ff., and 'D.N.B.' |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5784 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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