BM13203-symptoms-of-crim-con-1819-0531
identifier:
BM13203-symptoms-of-crim-con-1819-0531
title:
Symptoms of Crim. Con.!!!-or, a Political visit to the Heiress in Threadneedle Street
date:
February 12, 1819
description:
Vansittart, in his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown, is making love to the Bank of England, personified in a handsome, richly dressed, and bejewelled lady. They sit on large sacks of guineas, that of Vansittart inscribed 'Treasury Gold'. He puts his right hand on his breast, his left arm is round her shoulders. They sit in a strong-room filled with innumerable money-bags inscribed with large sums and many cyphers and a large chest of coin with guineas (or sovereigns) overflowing on to the floor. Through a barred opening in a heavily padlocked door John Bull looks in, with a frown of melancholy anger. Beside Vansittart is a drawing of a gibbet with a man and woman hanging from it; the caption is 'Bank Restrictions'. On the ground are torn papers on which a rat nibbles. In the upper left par is a stack of large drawers inscribed. Against these leans a board headed 'Small Profits'. Dialogue is in speech balloons over each figure. Source: George.
description:
British Museum #13203
format:
25 cm x 35 cm
type:
Paper
type:
Etching, hand-colored
coverage:
London, England
relation:
LUCA2017.47 1819
subject:
Mary Anne Clarke
subject:
Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany and Bishop of Osnabruck
subject:
Isabella, Marchioness of Hertford
subject:
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley
subject:
John Bull
subject:
Banks
subject:
Satire
subject:
Great Britain
creator:
Cruikshank, Isaac
relation:
Michalak Collection
source:
Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections