John Bull satisfied! – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: John Bull satisfied!, preserved in this historic drawing. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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John Bull, the stout, blunt personification of Britain created by the writer John Arbuthnot in 1712, is the figure at the center of this drawing, and the title, "John Bull satisfied!", announces his mood before the viewer sees the joke. Compared with the etched and printed caricatures that circulated widely in London, an original watercolor and ink drawing like this one was a rarer object. The record also ties the image to relations between the sexes, so the satire likely draws its humor from a domestic situation, a familiar way for British caricaturists of the period to comment on public life.
| Created / published | 1801 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : watercolor and black ink over pencil on off-white wove paper ; 32.4 x 24.7 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Cartoons (Commentary) British 1800-1810.Drawings British Color 1800-1810. |
| Subjects | John Bull (Symbolic character)--1800-1810. Relations between the sexes--1800-1810. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,101 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-162362 |
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