A man with the head of a pig jumps through a hoop held by a figure with the hat of Mercury and a shield as the circus master holds a ring and whip and an audience look on. Lithograph, ca. 1840/1845.
- Date:
- [1845?]
- Reference:
- 627427i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
The screen that the pig flies through is annotated 'anti-Maynooth'; the shield that the figure with the hat of Mercury is annotated 'pro-Maynooth'; the circus master holds a ring labelled 'Protection'. Satire on an unidentified Scottish politician presumably involved in the controversy in 1845 over the parliamentary grant to St. Patrick's College at Maynooth, Ireland, a Roman Catholic college
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1845?]
Physical description
1 print : lithograph ; sheet 28.2 x 22.2 cm
Lettering
The great Scotch bore. Scotch training for a milling match. See advertisement in last page of Cracker'.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 627427i
Type/Technique
Languages
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores