Protecting the Sabbath!!! Or, Coercion for England. The Political Drama. No.1.[&] [The modern puritan. Hanging a cat on a Monday for Killing a Mouse on a Sunday.] No. 2. The Political Drama.
[Charles Jameson Grant.]
[Printed and Published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market.] [c.1833]
Wood engraving. Sheet: 240 x 360mm (9½ x 14¼''). Creases and staining, laid on album sheet, and trimmed, staining, creasing.
Two satires on the ''Sabbath Obervance Bill'', introduced to the Commons in 1833, from 'The Political Drama', a series of 131 satires produced between 1833 and 1835 by Charles Jameson Grant (1830-52, fl.). A cat is hanging from a tree outside St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in Old Street, London, condemned by a man dressed as a Quaker, with a tartan cloak. The on-lookers call him a 'Merry Andrew' (i.e. a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior), believing him to be a resident of the building behind (renamed St Andrew's). The Quaker has a number of petitions and bills under his arm. 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.
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[Printed and Published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market.] [c.1833]
Wood engraving. Sheet: 240 x 360mm (9½ x 14¼''). Creases and staining, laid on album sheet, and trimmed, staining, creasing.
Two satires on the ''Sabbath Obervance Bill'', introduced to the Commons in 1833, from 'The Political Drama', a series of 131 satires produced between 1833 and 1835 by Charles Jameson Grant (1830-52, fl.). A cat is hanging from a tree outside St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in Old Street, London, condemned by a man dressed as a Quaker, with a tartan cloak. The on-lookers call him a 'Merry Andrew' (i.e. a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior), believing him to be a resident of the building behind (renamed St Andrew's). The Quaker has a number of petitions and bills under his arm. 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.
[Ref: 50156] £160.00