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a satire on the state of the nation in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, a time of widespread unrest and economic hardship, compounded by a bad harvest, depicting a demonic, skeletal, Castlereagh standing barefoot on John Bull's shoulders, plunging a lance into his heart, the latter tipping over the Regent's chair as he falls back, original hand-coloured etching, 350 x 245mm., [BM Satires 12794], J. Johnstone, 1816; with a mixed group of 5 other social and political satires of the 1820s up to the 1830 revolution, comprising Robert Seymour's Ab-n-hy and the Barrister [not in BM cat], and Weeding by the Head Gardener [BM 15820], William Heath's One of the Tenth [BM 15930], and Patriots who for Sacred Freedom Stood [BM 16217], and John Fairburn's Guy Vaux at St Stephen's [BM 16341]; with 3 military scenes and allegories; a view of Westminster, 1 of the Monument, and a plan of Lambeth; and a signed engraving by G. Sydney Hunt after one of Wheatly's Cries of London (13)