Catalogue Number
NMLH.1993.372.53
Object Name
Print
Title
MANCHESTER BULL-HUNT. OH SAVE ME! SAVE ME! NOW MR JUSTICE I'LL HAVE AT YOU -- YOU HAVE BEEN BAITING ME LONG ENOUGH.BLESS ME HOW FIERCE HE LOOKS...
Place
Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
People
Henry Hunt, William Cobbett
Events
Peterloo Massacre
Creator(s) Description
William Cobbett's face on charging bull with a yeoman's sabre in it's flank. At it's left is Henry Hunt, white, top hatted, holding a scroll labelled 'Peterloo Inquest'.
Peterloo print, 1819. The Peterloo Massacre was international news. Radical printers produced many anti-government prints, including this one. The prints symbolise the struggle between working people's campaigns for political reform and oppression by the authorities.
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