Below the title: 'Pugs, beware, He may not prove so great a fool as you may think him'. The British Lion is beset by peers in the form of apes. One only has a human (portrait) head, the Duke of Cumberland, who sits on the Lion's shoulders, holding a dagger against its neck. He wears a ducal coronet; the other six wear earl's coronets and short jackets, with Garter stars, and also Maltese crosses like the Saint Esprit (to associate them with reaction in the Bourbon manner). Four are behind Cumberland on the lion's back; one of these shouts into his ear, the next wields a scourge, the third has a banner inscribed 'Forty One'; the last gashes the lion's flank with a goad. A sixth (right) bites his tail, another sits astride the tail which he is about to sever with his sword, and the eighth, head downwards and losing his coronet, clings to the lion's belly. In front of the animal (left) are two ape-bishops. One drags a large bone, 'Reform', away from him; the other drags him along with a hook in his nose.  15 October 1831
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<p>Print made by: Thomas Landseer (?)
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<dl><dd>Published by: Thomas McLean</dd>
<dd>Printed by: Charles Motte</dd></dl></div>
1831<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1831-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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