Cartoon, Installation of the New Deputy Grand Master

Satirical cartoon, Installation of the New Deputy Grand Master of the Most Veritable Order of the Red Halter - vide Morning Post July 10th and 19th. A ceremonial dinner is taking place. The guests wear red cloaks, helmets and nooses. Most are politicians and include Whitbread, Brougham (holding a broom) and Matthew Wood. Sir Francis Burdett sits in a chair while Henry Hunt polishes his shoes. In a pulpit labelled Taylors Pillar is a bishop in back view, Robert Taylor, who was arrested for blasphemy. Don Quixote on a wooden horse is apparently Hobhouse. Cobbett is identifiable by his attribute, the gridiron

1827 Boar Boars Broom Brougham Burdett Cloaks Cobbett Dish Freemasons Gridiron Halter Hobhouse Installation Masons Noose Nooses Polishing Pulpit Quixote Veritable Vide Whitbread

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