A coach-and-four symbolizing the magazine is driven right to left at a gallop, the horses trampling on a women with snakey locks, symbolising Vice, who has dropped her sword. The driver, dressed as a fashi9onable amateur whip, flicks his heavy lash over a departing gaggle of geese representing Folly; the lash encircles the neck of one, another dives into a pond. Three asses draw back in alarm at the sight of the coach. The four spirited horses are lit by rays from a sun inscribed New Era. The rays impinge on heavy clouds to left and right. On the left is an incantation scene, three witches over a cauldron, with nude men and winged creatures in the air. They are miscreants trying to provoke dischord and ‘eclipse the glories of Britain’. On the right thunderbolts strike a group of gibets on a hill from which hang corpses. The remains of those previously pilloried in the ‘Satarist’. In the foreground on the right a snake emerges from flowers to hiss at the coach. In the coach is a pleasant group, John Bull and his family: a man facing the horses, a lady opposite him, and two children looking from the window. The words The¦Satarist¦New Series¦no 1 on the door are bordered by pens and surmounted by a jester’d head, birch road and scourge; also the letters SNS and crossed pens, encircled by a laural wreath and by a snake. The guard sits behind blowing the horn.
This print symbolized the Satarist under new management, the driver is presumably the new Editor William Jerdan.
BM11894
Type of the New Series of the Satarist
£160.00
William Henry Brooke (pseud W. H. Ekoorb) Type of the New Series of the Satarist. London, The Satarist 1st August 1812 Aquatint and etching Original hand-colouring 200x370mm Traces of old folds as issued
SKU:
1679
Category: Caricatures
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