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A man personifying Canada is showing a fleet of ships to John Bull. Drawing by A.G. Racey, 191-.
Racey, A. G. (Arthur George), 1870-1941.Date: 1910-1919Reference: 571944i- Pictures
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William Pitt the younger consults the doctor John Bull on his failing health. Coloured aquatint, 1798.
Date: 1798Reference: 12186i- Pictures
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Lord Brougham applies to John Bull for the position of coachman. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1839.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: 29 January 1839Reference: 36868iPart of: HB sketches- Pictures
Peel about to force-feed a large tablet to John Bull in an apothecaries shop; representing England at the hands of the politicians. Lithograph by H. Heath.
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850.Date: 1840Reference: 12249iPart of: Political Sketches- Pictures
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A dentist giving John Bull a penny after extracting a tooth; representing the effects of income tax on Great Britain. Wood engraving, 1861.
Date: 1861Reference: 13797i- Pictures
Four episodes in a war: John Bull at home in prosperity before the war; John Bull leaving his family and marching off to war; his family is reduced to poverty; as a gaunt, one-legged, one-eyed soldier he returns from war to his destitute family. Etching by J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: [1830]Reference: 585523i- Pictures
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A large bull with the head of Sir Robert Peel gazes angrily at a dog with the head of Lord Melbourne in a manger, regarded by John Bull holding a pitch fork. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1841.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: 30 August 1841Reference: 37077iPart of: HB sketches- Pictures
A newborn baby wrapped in long frilled gown with an enormous plumed headpiece is carried by a matron and presented to an irritated looking John Bull. Lithograph, ca. 1840/1850.
Date: 1840-1850Reference: 643127i- Pictures
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A doctor examining a disgruntled patient, John Bull, who is being reassured by his master. Lithograph by Crichton, 1834.
Date: [1834?]Reference: 13440i- Pictures
A quack doctor offering a gouty John Bull some medicine while conventional doctors are turned away; referring to British politics. Coloured lithograph attributed to J. Doyle.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Reference: 12250iPart of: Political Squibs- Pictures
Lord Grey offers a lamp from a box slung round his neck to John Bull who holds up his own old lamp looking over his shoulder to Peel. Lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1831.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: March 8 1831Reference: 651327iPart of: HB sketches- Pictures
Two judges seated in discussion on the left; and John Bull showing the back of his workhouse suit to a gentleman. Woodcut by C.J. Grant, ca. 1834.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: [1834?]Reference: 643468i- Pictures
William Pitt the younger as a very thin caricatured bank clerk stands behind a counter offering a handful of bank-notes to John Bull, while Charles James Fox and Sheridan attempt to stop Bull accepting the money. Line block after J. Gillray, 1873.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 1873Reference: 603157i- Pictures
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A small man representing the press is holding a spoon with a gooseberry on it and feeding it to John Bull; representing worthless news stories in the British press during the summer. Process print after Ricardo Brook.
Brook, Ricardo.Reference: 31780i- Pictures
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Dressed as a parish beadle John Bull carries a bundle inscribed "letter to the Queen" to the door of Lord Brougham. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1839.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: 29 January 1839Reference: 36865iPart of: HB sketches- Pictures
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Marquess of Londonderry, Sir Roger Gresley and Daniel O'Connell attempt to sell newspapers to John Bull, Sauney and Paddy, passengers on a coach. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: 26 July 1836Reference: 36541iPart of: HB sketches- Pictures
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Introduced by the Duke of Wellington, John Bull and Sir Robert Peel interrupt a dinner table occupied by government ministers and Lord Melbourne. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: 31 December 1838Reference: 36855iPart of: HB sketches- Pictures
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A bull frog. Coloured etching by J. Heath, 1802.
Heath, James, 1757-1834.Date: 1802Reference: 41068i- Pictures
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A large John Bull being held down and force-fed by Peel and Wellington; representing the idea of the Catholic emancipation as a breach of the constitution. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: April 1829Reference: 12224i- Pictures
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Three officers in the City of London Corporation holding different types of sticks ("characteresticks"): Lord Mayor Crosby with a scourge for wheat-speculators; John Wilkes with a Herculean club for defeating corruption; and and a bull representing Frederick Bull, with the sheriff's staff of office. Engraving after S.L., 1772.
S.L., active 1772.Date: [1 Jan. 1772]Reference: 584784i- Pictures
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Anglo-American research on the human genome, represented by Uncle Sam and John Bull knitting DNA. Scraperboard drawing by Bill Sanderson, 1990.
Sanderson, Bill.Date: [1990]Reference: 1918i- Pictures
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Henry Addington as a medical practitioner bleeding the exhausted John Bull, assisted by other politicians; representing Britain's strength being sapped by nepotism in politics and by war with Napoleon. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1803.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 2 May 1803Reference: 12193i- Pictures
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The painter Sir George Hayter watches Lord Melbourne making a study of John Bull as Prince Albert paints in oils and Queen Victoria engages in watercolours. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1840.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: 5 October 1840Reference: 37073iPart of: HB sketches- Pictures
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Benjamin Disraeli as a barber called "Ben Jingo" is cutting the face of John Bull while shaving him. Engraving (?) by W. Dewane, 188-.
Dewane, William.Date: 1880Reference: 568560iPart of: Victorian album of political satires.- Pictures
The head of John Wilkes, the Lord Mayor Brass Crosby and the recently elected sheriff, Frederick Bull decorated with civic chains pass as meteors through the sky into the mouth of oblivion. Engraving, 1771.
Date: [1 Nov. 1771]Reference: 584757i