Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

A Godly company?!

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R. Pratt

A Godly company?!

Published

[England] : Pub: by R. Pratt, 12 Broad St. Golden Square, [181-?]

etching with mezzotint
sheet: 96 x 437 mm
Peel 2635
Notes
Title from upper left of sheet.
Cartoon on a long, trimmed horizontal strip, possibly a portion of a larger design removed from a larger sheet; library's copy is irregularly cropped at left.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Design features two vignettes; at left, a cat in a gown sits enthroned in a chair on top of a barrel, with two female feline attendants at far left, and a guard at right; she receives a long line of simian figures wearing wigs and coats, the foremost bearing a sceptor; above them a line of text reads, "The Mayor and Corporation to wait on your eminence"; a second scene at right shows at group of men around a table; one of them stands and proclaims, "I address myself to the Chair-I don't pretend an Horator, I am no Mostemis nor a Kickero [...] I say it is a burning shame to give a guinea a quart for green peas!!!"; and another man responds "Mr. Alderman is perfectly right, it is a burning shame."

Associated names
Pratt, R., publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints