John Bull (Symbolic character)

Date: 1934

By: Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937

Reference: B-115-045

Description: Shows John Bull with a budget surplus of £31 million, while the rest of the world, including G. W. Forbes of New Zealand, looks on enviously Original for cartoon published in New Zealand herald Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Signed: T L Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 230 x 320 mm on sheet 290 x 490 mm

Date: 1933

By: Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937

Reference: B-115-031

Description: Shows France and Britain (John Bull) with a large nut marked "war debts". They are asking Uncle Sam to help them crack it Original for cartoon probably published in the New Zealand herald Inscriptions: Signed: T. L. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 280 x 440 mm on sheet 310 x 490 mm

Date: 1815 - 1816

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-014

Description: A satire of the Regent's dissipated gifts and the quarrels of his family. John Bull chases off the Prince of Orange and, left, Queen Charlotte tips a teapot into the mouth of a fat German prince. The King of Spain (top left) was reputed to have spent his exile embroidering petticoats for the Virgin Mary. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Mount recto - beneath image - Typed descriptive text Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 220 x 497 mm

Date: 1911

By: Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: C-047-004

Description: A series of vignettes making comic suggestions about a range of current topics, starting with the implications of an Anglo-German friendship league and an Anglo-American arbitration treaty. The figures depicted include George V shaking hands with Kaiser Bill, 'The new John Bull' dressed in top hat and the Stars and Stripes, references to William Massey, Herries 'Sir Wilfrid' and Sir Joseph Ward, references to penny postage in Australia and to the growing population of the North Island vs the South Island and their respective electoral representation Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink 530 x 403 mm

Date: 1813

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830

Reference: B-021-044

Description: John Bull in a cellar looking in horror at an exploding barrel of beer. An attack on the price and adulteration of beer, and the profiteering of brewers Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board recto - beneath image - Typed descriptive text Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 257 x 398 mm

Date: 1815

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830

Reference: B-021-043

Description: Castlereagh shown paying a musician (from a bag of Fidlers Subsidy) but fails to call the tune. John Bull, holding a crown, is angry that British's share in the spoils of costly war should be merely the elevation of Hanover to the status of a kingdom. In the background a bear dances with two eagles. Subsidies were involved in the so-called Secret Treaty of 3 January, a defensive alliance between Austria, France and Britain; but this would not have been known to the artist Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board recto - beneath image - Typed descriptive text Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 265 x 360 mm

Date: 1836

From: Various artists :[Assorted almanacs and newspaper offprints, mainly British. 1790s-1854].

By: Cleave, John, active 1830s

Reference: D-013-044

Description: A humorous publication commenting on royalty, the Prince of Wales (William IV?), Victoria and Albert, politics, fashions, Robert Peel, John Bull, etc. A black stamp at top right features a figure thumbing his nose, and the motto "Don't they wish they may get it". Approximate date taken from the list of John Cleave's publications in the British Library catalogue. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and engravings, on four page booklet, each page 512 x 378 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1843

From: Various artists :[Assorted almanacs and newspaper offprints, mainly British. 1790s-1854].

By: Livesey, J, active 1843; Robinson, J S, active 1842

Reference: D-013-003

Description: A central almanac of days, surrounded by engravings showing: The absurdity of forced emigration; landlord and farmer; John Bull's show box [about propaganda to elicit the money the public must pay to win Britains' colonial wars]; Will-o'the-Wisp, alias "Protection"; Janus the god with two faces; The Shaddle [re Sir Robert Peel]; paying the rent; Buckingham Badger the monopolist [and] Cheap John the free trader. Main artist / engraver is J S Robinson. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving and letterpress on sheet 566 x 454 mm.

Date: 1928

From: Liquor Trades' Defence Union of New South Wales: [Scrapbook of posters promoting continuance of liquor sales. ca 1928]

By: Liquor Trades' Defence Union of New South Wales; Hollander & Govett (Firm)

Reference: Eph-E-ALCOHOL-Continuance-1928-03

Description: Poster against prohibition in New South Wales, Australia, shows a small boy (in a hat labelled "NSW") standing between Uncle Sam carrying a bag labelled "Drugs, poisonous liquor" at the far left, and a benevolent John Bull in a Union Jack waistcoat and carrying a bag labelled "British freedom", at the right. A signpost shows "Prohibition" pointing towards Uncle Sam and "Continuance" pointing towards John Bull. At the lower right, a hand writes an X into a square. Quantity: 5 colour art print(s) of set of six (Top left sheet still in parent album). Physical Description: Chromolithographs on sheets each 760 x 1015 mm, total dimensions 1505 x 3045 mm. Transfers: These five sheets of the six-sheet poster were removed by Conservation staff from Liquor Trades' Defence Union Album at Eph-F-ALCOHOL-Continuance-Australia. The top left sheet is still stuck in this album.

Date: 1914 - 1915

From: [Ephemera relating to World War I. 1914. Folder 1]

By: Bamforth & Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-1914-08

Description: Postcard shows a cartoon of a British gentleman ("John Bull") in top hat and coat tails. He is seen from the back standing on a piece of land, and stretching out his hands to shake those of of a man standing in Canada, and another standing in Australia, with the land of New Zealand adjacent to it. The cartoon refers to the praise Britain bestowed upon its colonies for help in the first World War. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard, 87 x 137 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Yester*Year, Australia, in 2014.

Date: 1836

From: Various artists :[Assorted almanacs and newspaper offprints, mainly British. 1790s-1854].

By: Cleave, John, active 1830s; Grant, Charles Jameson, active 1830-1852

Reference: D-013-047

Description: The back and fron pages of the four-page broadside contain about 30 humorous illustrations in total, and show scenes such as: Louis Philippe on his own made throne; Laying the foundation of the new House of Lords; The world above us, or John Bull's lunatic discoveries; Ecclesiastical reform. Some illustrations are signed G D, C J G. Approximate date taken from the same or similar title in the British Library catalogue. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and engravings, on four page booklet, each page 585 x 430 mm.

Date: 1930

By: New Zealand free lance (Newspaper); Glover, Thomas Ellis, 1891?-1938

Reference: J-065-036

Description: A New Zealand salesman with samples of meat (a lamb), wool, butter and cheese, is greeted by a oriental salesman. In the background, salesmen from the United States, Russia, Germany, France, Denmark and Holland are crowding into the offices of J. Bull Free Trade (United Kingdom). Extended Title - The recent visit of the Dutch East Indies Squadron on a goodwill mission and the opening of a steamer service with Japan have drawn renewed attention to the prospects of developing fresh maerkets in the east. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 size photocopy from newspaper (engraving)

Date: 1842 - 1843

From: Various artists :[Assorted almanacs and newspaper offprints, mainly British. 1790s-1854].

By: Livesey, J, active 1843; Robinson, J S, active 1842

Reference: D-013-002

Description: A central almanac of days, surrounded by engravings showing: The absurdity of forced emigration; landlord and farmer; John Bull's show box [about propaganda to elicit the money the public must pay to win Britains' colonial wars]; Will-o'the-Wisp, alias "Protection"; Janus the god with two faces; The Shaddle [re Sir Robert Peel]; paying the rent; Buckingham Badger the monopolist [and] Cheap John the free trader. Main artist / engraver is J S Robinson. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving and letterpress on sheet 566 x 454 mm.

Date: 1815

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-016

Description: The comprehensive scurrility of this satire reflects the spirit of the magazine `Scourge', but not the attitude to the war of the Opposition who maintained that Napolean's intentions were pacific. John Bull, here depicted as a bull crushed by taxes, is sacrificed by Castlereagh and Vansittart to the Bourbon cause. Louis XVIII goes to war in armour and mounted on a mule with the head of Talleyrand. The Regent's reputation suffers the usual bruising. Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonberry (1769-1822), known until 1821 as Viscount Castlereagh, an Anglo-Irish politician and Foreign Secretary, 1812-1822. Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley (1766-1851), English pilitician and Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1812. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, Prince of Benevente (1754-1838), French diplomat, Prime Minister of France in 1815. The Scourge; or, Monthly Expositor of Imposture and Folly. Published by F Johnson, and afterwards by Jones & Co, 1811-1816 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board verso - centre - Typed descriptive text Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 218 x 538 mm

Date: 1832

From: Various artists :[Assorted almanacs and newspaper offprints, mainly British. 1790s-1854].

By: Major, T, active 1832; Bell, J, active 1832

Reference: D-013-015

Description: Includes head and shoulders portraits of the kings in a border. At top centre is a picture of John Bull crushed down by the burden of pensions, sinecures and taxes. At top right is a table of the price of wheat from 1563 to the time of George III. Lower half contains a textual history of the debt. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Bought in London, 27 March 1832 / J Bell Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on sheet 554 x 450 mm.

Date: 1933

By: Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937

Reference: B-115-010

Description: Shows Eamonn de Valera trailing a coat marked "republic" and saying to John Bull, "Tread on the tail of me coat!", while John Bull holds out a folder marked "land annuities" Original for cartoon published in the New Zealand herald Inscriptions: Signed: T.L. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 250 x 360 mm on sheet 310 x 490 mm

Date: 1815

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-031

Description: Four subjects: 1. `Administering a mild antidote to starvation !!!' John Bull tortured by Vansittart and Castlereagh with new taxes and the Corn Bill. 2. `Cockrane & Broushouffe or a return to quarters'. Lord Cochrane being returned to prison after his escape; he was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for conspiracy. 3. `An if and a butt or how to escape'. Cochrane's escape. The title may be a punning allusion to the release, and subsequent re-arrest, of R G Butt who had been convicted with Cochrane. 4. `The lyon and the unicorn fighting for the crown etc'. Napoleon and Louis XVIII struggling for the crown of France Rear Admiral Thomas Alexander Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775-1860), styled Lord Cochrane between 1778-1831 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board recto - beneath image - Typed descriptive text Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 218 x 520 mm

Date: 1816

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-006

Description: John Bull, his wife on his arm, in the centre of a crowd of people at the Soho Bazaar, all spending money on knicknacks. The young man seated on the right and remarking `I dare say, for I'm sure it's second hand & common enough' is thought to be a self-portrait of the artist The Soho Bazaar was established by John Trotter in 1815 and made Trotter wealthy. The cartton also makes allusions to the Insolvent Debtors' Act Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 219 x 502 mm (irregular)

Date: 1815

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-032

Description: John Bull with one arm hacked off and it is being presented to Napoleon as `Hanover' and the other (`Ireland') in the process of being chopped of by an axe (`Catholic Bill'), etc. A satire indirectly relating to the so-called Congress of Prague which was held during the Armistice of Plaswitz to discuss peace terms. It opened in 12 July and was abortive, since Napoleon was determined to continue the war unless he could retain his conquests. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board recto - beneath image - Typed descriptive text Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 220 x 505 mm

Date: 1816

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-040

Description: Satire on the engagement of Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Princes Charlotte. An allusion to the £60,000 a year settled on the couple. The property tax, referred to by Vansittart (in black robes) had been abolished in March. The harridan on the balcony is Princess Charlotte's mother. The Prince is shown in tattered clothes being offered a pair of pink trousers to wear by John Bull. Charlotte, only child of George, Prince of Wales, later Prince Regent and George IV was born in 1796. She married Prince Leopold Saxe-Coburg on 2 May 1816. A French copy of this print is in the British Museum Collection. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board recto - beneath image - Typed descriptive text Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 257 x 350 mm