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Description: | pen and pencil drawings on yellowed paper, folded into 12 panels (3x4 panels), for various pages of 'Five Years of Misrule or the Gladstone Government' (1886), satirical poem by George Roberts Hedley; 10 'panels' of 24 panels (obverse and reverse) on the folded paper have drawings - 8 on the front and 2 on the back, each of about 17cms x 19cms - see atttached key.
1. - pencil lettering - Fs, Ms, G, and y, for the cover; a row of brush and ink trial blobs along one side,
2. - pencil layout design for the cover (omitting the central image).
3. - 'Concert for Europe' inscribed at the top and various other inscriptions, with sketchy figures including one of a man conducting an orchestra (which is not shown).
4. - sketch of a row of figues seated on a bench, for p.2 of 'Five Years of Missrule', with inscriptions.
5. - pen and ink drawing of a standing man (possibly Gladstone), with practice pen shading.
6. - sketch of railway workers and central figure for p.17 of (Five Years of Misrule).
7. - 'On fool Makes Many' inscribed in pen below a rough pen sketch of the figures in p.2 of 'Five Years of Misrule',
8. - pencil sketch of a brewer's open cask for p. 13 of 'Five Years of Misrule'.
9. - pen and pencil drawing of a man, Gladstone, welcoming figures from a door, for p. 15 of 'Five Years of Misrule'.
10. - Gladstone being pushed down a hole by male figures in skirts; with pencil inscription., for p.19. | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.watercolours/drawings.517 | Go to resource |
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