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The bubble blowers or a picture of the times.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Published by: I B Brookes

Printed by: W & J O Clerk
Title
The bubble blowers or a picture of the times.
Description
English: John Bull (left), fat and bald, lies prone beneath a huge burden of packages on which sit Tory leaders, much at their ease. The largest package is 'National Debt'; the others, 'Consols' [twice], 'India Bonds', 'Exchequer Bills', 'Police Charges' [see BM Satires No. 15768, &c], 'Debt' [thrice], 'Select Vestries' [see BM Satires No. 16367, &c.]. He says: 'I dont think I can possibly bear it much longer'. The Tories are (left to right) Peel, Ellenborough, Newcastle, Wellington, Cumberland, Eldon, Goulburn. They look complacently and quizzically at the bubbles blown by the Ministers (right). Brougham, in wig and gown and Grey sit on the 'Woolsack' the former holding a large bowl of 'Constitutional Soap Suds for renovating & cleansing any thing & every thing'. Grey blows a big 'Reform Bubble Bill' ['Bubble' scored through]; two more identical bubbles float towards J. B.'s burden where one breaks. Grey: 'There's Three beautiful formations are they not Broom'. Brougham: 'Yes! But don't you see the wind blows them all against poor Johnny's load, where they are sure to burst'. Althorp and Russell stand behind the Woolsack (right), each blowing a smaller 'Bubble'. January 1831?
Hand-coloured lithograph
Depicted people Associated with: John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer
Date 1831
date QS:P571,+1831-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 239 millimetres
Width: 341 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1868,0808.9405
Notes

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

A similar theme to No. 16384, from which it may derive, published while there was scepticism as to Reform, cf. No. 16544. J. B.'s burden is traditional, but Government securities in place of taxes are new. The detailed expenses of the Metropolitan Police were in the 'Extraordinary Black Book', 1831, pp. 546-8.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-9405
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