Sujet

'Weird sisters, preparing for the royal visit', 1830. Artist: Robert Seymour

Légende

'Weird sisters, preparing for the royal visit', 1830. The top image depicts Aldermen as the witches of Macbeth preparing a cauldron of turtle soup for the Lord Mayor's banquet, while the ghost of Sir William Curtis watches. Below are five images, including including two showing the 'spirit of aristocracy' possibly in reference to the Reform Bill. From The Looking Glass.

Date

1830

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/City of London : The London Archives

Notre référence

HRM19A99_038

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

18,8Mo (1,1Mo) / 18,5cm x 25,5cm / 2185 x 3007 (300dpi)

Mots clés

England food people male man men arts politics country guy cooking cookery watching clothes British English bill ghost turtle death robes robe dress location century city of london Britain literature concept soup banquet cartoon phantom aquatic life 19th century nineteenth century Guildhall Library & Art Gallery alderman Alderman of London cauldron cooking pot Lord Mayor of London Lord Mayor's Dinner Macbeth Reform Bill TGN Sir William Curtis turtle soup caricature satire lithograph William Curtis Sir William Robert Seymour William Curtis Seymour Robert