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The political champion turned resurrection man!
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Print made by: Isaac Robert Cruikshank
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The political champion turned resurrection man! |
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| Description |
English: Cobbett, astride the neck of a diabolical monster, and followed by demons, is about to land on the English coast, where a crowd hails his return. Below is the sea, and on the right the American shore. Cobbett (a good portrait) holds out a pen in his right hand; the left hand grasps vertebrae supporting a skull and projecting from a box which rests on the monster's back and is inscribed: 'Cobbett's long hidden Treasures or the Relicts of Paine'. The skull wears a bonnet rouge, Cobbett a top-hat with tricolour cockade; he says: "How to delude the Populace.—An advantageous distribution of the Words Liberty, Tyranny, Slavery &c does wonders with the populace Cobb Vol 2. p. 114—I now say Water Water-Water!!!" The monster breathes fiery smoke, and grips Cobbett's gaitered legs with its talons; it has webbed and barbed wings and a long scaly barbed tail. The two demons immediately behind Cobbett carry large papers inscribed respectively: 'Paines [Age of] Reason' [see No. 13274] and 'Cobbetts Pol. Reg'. The third carries a sheaf of spears and excretes fire inscribed 'Revolution', and smoke inscribed 'Corruption'. The last, a bird-like creature, has a body inscribed 'Plague'; other monsters are advancing from a distance.
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| Depicted people | Representation of: William Cobbett | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1819 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
1868,0808.8476 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949) Cobbett (cf. No. 12878) landed at Liverpool on 21 Nov., bringing with him the bones of Tom Paine. He received an enthusiastic welcome from the Radicals, and on reaching London was given (3 Dec.) a public dinner at the Crown and Anchor, here satirized. Only water was drunk, Cobbett preaching abstinence to defeat the tax-collector, cf. No. 13244, &c., and on other grounds. Wooler, with whom he had quarrelled, took a prominent part, and Hunt, whom he had once attacked, and was shortly to neglect, took the chair. Cobbett in his speech explained that he brought Paine's bones to atone for the injustice he had done him; he had found that he had been refused interment in a quakers' burial ground, 'he intended to erect a colossal statue, in bronze, in honour of his memory'. Wooler said he would like Cobbett side by side on the same pedestal. 'Black Dwarf', iii. 801-4. The references are to the edition of Cobbett's 'Works' published in 1801, reprints of pamphlets issued in America, including a scurrilous 'Life of Thomas Paine', 1796. For 'Cobbett's Political Register' see (e.g.) No. 11049. Cobbett writes (1 Jan.) to his son in New York: 'I will send you a caricature . . . representing me as flying over the sea and old Isaac Wright dancing with 'the Devil' on the American shore, rejoicing at my departure!' 'Pol. Reg.', 6 Jan. 1820. The first allusion in these prints to the Resurrection men who traded in bodies; see vol. x; but cf. No. 11800. For Cobbett and Paine see also Nos. 13314, 13339. Listed by Broadley. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-8476 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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