IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225267 accession number: P.14678-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Thursday 6 January 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Lithograph (uncoloured) on white wove paper. Inlaid within a frame of buff wove paper (approx. height 360mm x width 515mm). John Bull sits on a chair at the centre pulling on some trousers. He says: 'The cut may be more according to rule / and the stuff more fashionable, but I begin to / doubt that they will fit more comfortably or wear better / than my old _discarded ever lastings_'. Lord John Russell stands to the right (in the role of tailor) and says: 'Oh! we of the new school, reject such Old fashioned notions / altogether: ...'. Three figures at the far left look on and comment, from left to right: Peel (Robert Peel), Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington) and Eldon (John Scott, Earl of Eldon). Signed with initial and monogram at lower left: 'A & HB'; The initial 'A' precedes HB's monogram to indicate additional authorship of the design. See George, introduction, xlviii. Title printed below the border: JOHN BULL trying on his "bra" new " _GREY_ "BREEKS.". The publisher's details printed below: 'London: Published by Thos McLean, 26, Haymarket, March 16th, 1831.'. Printer's details below the border at lower right: 'Printed by C. Motte, 23, Leicester Sqre.'. Printed at upper right: 'HB Sketches No. 116'. See 16609,_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, p. 454. title: satirical print LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Given by Mrs J.E. Foster, 1895 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225267 TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1831 - 1831 creation date earliest: 1831 creation date latest: 1831 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Doyle, John (HB) maker: McLean, Thomas maker: Monogrammist A (with John Doyle [HB])