Intrappolando il gallo Preston

Intrappolando il gallo Preston
Insnaring the Preston cock
by Charles Jameson Grant - Published in London 1831

A cock with the head of Hunt in profile to the left, stands on a dunghill, beside the gable-end of a timbered building (right), inscribed 'Preston Farm Ho[use]'. Tories lean over a paling, trying to entice the bird. On the extreme left is Peel, holding out a rat-trap (as in BM Satires No. 15734) in which are two papers: 'Patronage' and 'Place'; he says: 'Ecod, He Smells a Rat'. Wellington empties a large purse, calling 'Cup Cup Biddy Cup Cup — Come and Crow on our Dunghill'. Twiss empties a smaller one, saying, 'See how His eyes glisten at the Golden Grain'. Hunt's eyes are avidly fixed on the shower of coins. Wetherell holds out papers inscribed 'Anti Reform Bill'. These blandishments are watched (right) by Gloucester and Cumberland, who says 'A Rotten Borough to a Bottle of Blacking he's ours'. Two of Hunt's constituents watch from an open casement window; one says: 'See Measter. them Suspicious looking Chaps be going to entice away our Old Matchless'. 20 April 1831