Title: 'THE NEW STATE CARRIAGE! If my State Carriage cannot be got
ready, I will go in a Hackney Coach (see Morn'g Herald Apl 23) in Person
send them to the People for their decision.'
Publication: by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, London
Date: 1831
Description: A political cartoon depicting the King William
IV in his carriage uttering the words "The Aristocracy have too long
kept the Crown and the Government in Subjection to the Manifest Injury
of the People, the People shall have their Rights."
The coachman answers "Nothing less than a Knight of the Whip for this!!"
Huzzas from the crowd with comments "A Patriot King, Patriot Ministers and a Zealous People" and "Reform Bill for ever".
This is a comment on the Reform Act of 1832 aka
Representation of the People Act 1832 or First Reform Act (to
distinguish it from subsequent Reform Acts) was an Act of Parliament of
the United Kingdom that introduced wide ranging alterations to the
electoral system of England and Wales.
Condition: Copperplate etching, image good, later hand
colouring, some age toning and old mount marks to margins, stain to top
left corner, image unaffected.
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