John Bull or an Englishman's Fireside!The Political Drama. No. 4.
[C.J. Grant.]
Printed and Published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market.
Wood engraving. Sheet: 360 x 240mm (14¼ x 9½''). Damage in corners.
Satire on attempts to enforce Observance of the Sabbath. John Bull sits miserably in a corner of a room. Having been paid his weekly wages after the shops had shut on Saturday, he has no food or 'bacca and is unable to go out for fear of the 'Arm'd Blue Devil', a bearded 'bobby' (a Metropolitan Policeman), seen through a window with a cracked pane. He complains 'This is Observing the Sabbath with a vengeance'. Between 1830 and 1847 the M.P. for Wigtownshire, Sir Andrew Agnew, introduced four bills to the House of Commons attempting to enforce the better Observance of the Sabbath. On his third attempt Charles Dickens wrote 'Sunday Under Three Heads' (1836), a personal attack on Agnew, whom he described as a fanatic, motivated by resentment of the idea that those poorer than himself might have any pleasure in life. Agnew left Parliament in 1837, ending the campaign. A woodcut after C.J. Grant's 1833 lithograph published by Tregear.
Not in BM Satire.
[Ref: 50144] £110.00
Printed and Published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market.
Wood engraving. Sheet: 360 x 240mm (14¼ x 9½''). Damage in corners.
Satire on attempts to enforce Observance of the Sabbath. John Bull sits miserably in a corner of a room. Having been paid his weekly wages after the shops had shut on Saturday, he has no food or 'bacca and is unable to go out for fear of the 'Arm'd Blue Devil', a bearded 'bobby' (a Metropolitan Policeman), seen through a window with a cracked pane. He complains 'This is Observing the Sabbath with a vengeance'. Between 1830 and 1847 the M.P. for Wigtownshire, Sir Andrew Agnew, introduced four bills to the House of Commons attempting to enforce the better Observance of the Sabbath. On his third attempt Charles Dickens wrote 'Sunday Under Three Heads' (1836), a personal attack on Agnew, whom he described as a fanatic, motivated by resentment of the idea that those poorer than himself might have any pleasure in life. Agnew left Parliament in 1837, ending the campaign. A woodcut after C.J. Grant's 1833 lithograph published by Tregear.
Not in BM Satire.
[Ref: 50144] £110.00