Phillips (John) “Sharpshooter”.
Guy Vaux at St. Stephen's,
John Fairburn, 1830.
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a satire on the appointment of Henry Brougham as Lord Chancellor in late 1830, becoming 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, a popular legal reformer, slavery abolitionist, and co-founder of both the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and University College London, he had also been chief attorney to Queen Caroline through her divorce from George IV, here depicted creeping past the Woolsack, wearing a conical hat and carrying a lantern, saying ‘I’ll blow ye all up in style—I’ve the powder and combustibles—I’m the Re-former of Abuses & ye know it—Nemo me impune lacesset’,
original hand-coloured etching, 325 x 230 mm. (12 3/4 x 9 in), [BM Satires 16341],
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