New Brooms for John Bull, or Sweeping Measures recommended by the late Chancellor
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About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Cabinet Office, 1 Horse Guards Road
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- Places
- Subjects
- cart, satire, townscape/cityscape, Victorian Genre, dog, man, 19th century costume, stockings, breeches, wig, hat, broom, begging, poverty, working class, Lord Chancellor, sailor (navy), John Bull, cartoon, street, cobbles
- Materials & Techniques
- etching, coloured etching
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Details
- Artist
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British 19th century unknown
- Title
- New Brooms for John Bull, or Sweeping Measures recommended by the late Chancellor
- Date
- 1816
- Medium
- Coloured etching
- Dimensions
- height: 25.80 cm, width: 36.20 cm
- Acquisition
- Transferred from HM Revenue and Customs, December 2012
- Inscription
- below lettering, in pencil [centre] Ld Erskine 1807
- Provenance
- Inland Revenue, Somerset House; transferred to GAC 2012
- GAC number
- 15562