George Cruickshank

‘JOHN BULL GIVING ADVICE TO HIS FAVOURITE CANDIDATE!!’ (‘SO I FIND MESSMATE – YOU ARE DETERMINED TO PLOUGH THE OCEAN OF POLITICS – NOW TAKE A SMALL ALLOWANCE [SIC] OF ADVICE FROM AN OLD SEAMAN – BEWARE OF THE ROCKS OF CORRUPTION, – HAVE AN EYE ON WHAT PILOTS YOU TAKE ON BOARD – KEEP YOUR VESSEL, IN THE TRUE PATRIOT CHANNEL, AND BEWARE OF BEING SWAMP’D IN THE QUICKSANDS OF PARTY, – AND ABOVE ALL AVOID THE SHOALS OF FALSE FRIENDSHIP AS YOU WOULD THE DEVIL!!’ | 'MR BULL – DEPEND UPON IT I SHALL FOLLOW YOUR ADVICE’)

254 by 356mm., pen ink and watercolour with pencil, signed and inscribed with title, mounted, framed and glazed, crease lower right