Fabric: Peterloo Scarf
TitleFabric: Peterloo Scarf
ReferenceFABRIC/0247
Date
n.d.
Scope and ContentScarf showing the massacre at Peterloo, 1819 (Restricted access - contact WCML for details)
Title: A representation of the Manchester reform meeting dispersed by the civil and military power, Augt 16th 1819
From Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: volume 9
"Wood engraving printed on coarse calico as a handkerchief. The yeomanry slash their way in different directions through a dense crowd, among whom are a few women. The greater part of the (respectably dressed) crowd is escaping in a tightly packed mass to the left. The platform, surrounded by sabres, is in the middle distance, indicated only by the banners and placards seen above the heads of the crowd. Hunt stands, hat in hand, near a placard inscribed 'Order'. The banners (l to r) are 'Unite and be Free'; 'Royton Female Union Society'; 'Manchester Female Union Society'; 'Liberty is the birth right of Man'; 'No Corn Laws'; 'Hunt and Liberty'; 'Stockport Oldham Middleton Union'; 'Universal Suffrage Annual Parliaments and Election by Ballot'; 'Taxation with representation is unjust and tyrannical'; a woman hold a banner on which is depicted a seated woman with a cap of Liberty on a spear; another banner is 'Saddleworth Lees and Morley Union'. Most banners are surmounted by a cap of Liberty. There is a topographical background; some buildings have figures referring to notes. The include 3 - Mess. Pickfords and Co's Warehouse (where the yeomanry were mustered) and 5 - House where the Magistrates sat. The title and notes are on a scroll which is draped across the upper part of the design among heavy clouds. There is a border of a ribbon intertwined with palm-branches and laurel-leaves. On the ribbon is repeated: Universal Suffrage Annual Parliaments and Election by Ballot. The scene resembles the etching by Wroe, A View of St Peter's Place [...] but extending farther to left and to right, showing the Society of Friends School and St Peter's Church and (r.) the Windmill Public House."
Title: A representation of the Manchester reform meeting dispersed by the civil and military power, Augt 16th 1819
From Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: volume 9
"Wood engraving printed on coarse calico as a handkerchief. The yeomanry slash their way in different directions through a dense crowd, among whom are a few women. The greater part of the (respectably dressed) crowd is escaping in a tightly packed mass to the left. The platform, surrounded by sabres, is in the middle distance, indicated only by the banners and placards seen above the heads of the crowd. Hunt stands, hat in hand, near a placard inscribed 'Order'. The banners (l to r) are 'Unite and be Free'; 'Royton Female Union Society'; 'Manchester Female Union Society'; 'Liberty is the birth right of Man'; 'No Corn Laws'; 'Hunt and Liberty'; 'Stockport Oldham Middleton Union'; 'Universal Suffrage Annual Parliaments and Election by Ballot'; 'Taxation with representation is unjust and tyrannical'; a woman hold a banner on which is depicted a seated woman with a cap of Liberty on a spear; another banner is 'Saddleworth Lees and Morley Union'. Most banners are surmounted by a cap of Liberty. There is a topographical background; some buildings have figures referring to notes. The include 3 - Mess. Pickfords and Co's Warehouse (where the yeomanry were mustered) and 5 - House where the Magistrates sat. The title and notes are on a scroll which is draped across the upper part of the design among heavy clouds. There is a border of a ribbon intertwined with palm-branches and laurel-leaves. On the ribbon is repeated: Universal Suffrage Annual Parliaments and Election by Ballot. The scene resembles the etching by Wroe, A View of St Peter's Place [...] but extending farther to left and to right, showing the Society of Friends School and St Peter's Church and (r.) the Windmill Public House."
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Archival historyThe image was drawn and etched by John Slack, engraver & copperplate printer; engraver to calico printers; bookseller & publisher.
Born about 1764. He married Helen (Ellen) Robinson (1767?-1828) at Liverpool 31 Oct 1785. Describing himself as a calico and historical engraver, he advertised for an apprentice in 1790. A partnership in Salford with William Cowdroy as printers and publishers was formally dissolved 22 Oct 1814. Described as a “printer, publisher, bookseller” of Salford, he was declared bankrupt 5 Apr 1817. In 1825, a John Slack Jr. was a letterpress printer and stationer at 7 Bailey’s Court, Market Place, Manchester, and a further John Slack was an engraver to calico printers at 36 Bury Street, Salford. He died 9 Sep 1827 was buried at Trinity Chapel, Salford, 13 Sep 1827 aged sixty-three.
Source: British Map Engravers: A Dictionary of Engravers, Lithographers and their Principal Employers to 1850
Born about 1764. He married Helen (Ellen) Robinson (1767?-1828) at Liverpool 31 Oct 1785. Describing himself as a calico and historical engraver, he advertised for an apprentice in 1790. A partnership in Salford with William Cowdroy as printers and publishers was formally dissolved 22 Oct 1814. Described as a “printer, publisher, bookseller” of Salford, he was declared bankrupt 5 Apr 1817. In 1825, a John Slack Jr. was a letterpress printer and stationer at 7 Bailey’s Court, Market Place, Manchester, and a further John Slack was an engraver to calico printers at 36 Bury Street, Salford. He died 9 Sep 1827 was buried at Trinity Chapel, Salford, 13 Sep 1827 aged sixty-three.
Source: British Map Engravers: A Dictionary of Engravers, Lithographers and their Principal Employers to 1850
SubjectPeterloo Massacre
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