File:A pot-walloper (BM 1868,0808.9198).jpg
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Summary
A pot-walloper
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| Artist |
Print made by: Robert Seymour
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| Title |
A pot-walloper |
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| Description |
English: A disreputable tramp, clasping his bare legs, sits beside a pot hanging gipsy-fashion over burning sticks. A man (left) addresses him with an oratorical gesture and a severe expression: 'The people of Britain possess the power to return an independent parliament if they will but exert it, think of that my noble pot-walloper'. An older man (right) puts his hand in his pocket, saying, 'Never mind Him I'll give you something to put in your pot'. The voter looks with a greedy sideways grin at the latter. Below the title: '"In some parts of England the elective franchise is held by every man that wallops, or boils a pot in a tenement & hence a pot-walloper is a parliamentary and legal Term." (Times monday July 12th 1830.)' [Paragraph from a correspondent headed "A Walloper and Wallop".] July 14 1830
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| Date | 1830 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Prints and Drawings |
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| Accession number |
1868,0808.9198 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954) See No. 16163; for pot-walloper Porritt, 'Unreformed House of Commons', 1909, pp. 31 f. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-9198 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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