Sir Matthew Collection

The property tax for ever!!!, 1816. Artist
The property tax for ever!!!, 1816. A scene in the Guildhall. Alderman John Atkins is haranguing the audience on the matter of the income tax. Sir William Curtis is wearing sailors trousers

Benefits of a plentiful harvest, 1813. Artist
Benefits of a plentiful harvest, 1813. Lord Mayor Scholey sitting enthroned and pointing to a pair of scales where a loaf is much lighter than the prescribed weight

A peep into the Blue Coat School!!!!!!!!!, 1815. Artist
A peep into the Blue Coat School!!!!!!!!!, 1815. Showing a pig in military uniform (General Sir Eyre Coote) standing on its hind legs and being birched by three Christs Hospital boys

A civic louse in the state bed!!!, or the Corporation conglomorated!!, 1824. Artist
A civic louse in the state bed!!!, or the Corporation conglomorated!!, 1824. The City aldermen and Lord Mayor John Garratt examining an enormous louse on the Mansion House state bed

City Scavengers Cleansing the London Streets of Impurities, 1816. The Lord Mayor, Matthew Wood, Robert Waithman and Sir William Curtis forcibly removing prostitutes from the streets of the City

A companion to the Q-ns ass... 1821
A Companion to the Q(uee)-ns Ass in a Band Box, 1821. Lord Francis Conyngham sits on a zebra with a human face (Alderman Wood)

Mother Cole, 1821. An inebriated Queen Caroline is shown slumped in an armchair with a glass of brandy in her hand; behind her stands a servile

Bat, Cat and Mat, how happy could I be with either, 1821. Queen Caroline, Bergami and Matthew Wood dance arm in arm on a road between Calais and St Omer

Delicious Dreams! Castles in the air! Glorious prospects!, 1821. Queen Caroline and her supporters (Flinn, Hume, Lady Anne Hamilton, Alderman Wood)

Grand entrance to Bamboozl em, 1821. Queen Caroline and Alderman Matthew Wood heading a procession through the City, met by a group of Radical reformers

Humpty Dumpty sat on a Wall... 1821. Artist: Richard Dighton
Humpty Dumpty sat on a Wall... 1821. Alderman Wood lies in the mud outside Brandenburgh House. The cartoon refers to the fact that although Wood supported her

A late arrival at Mother Wood s, 1820. Queen Caroline appears on the balcony of Alderman Sir Matthew Woods house before a street full of traffic

The exile restored... 1820
The exile restored or the spies, spawns & spewers of scurrility abuse & defamation set to work, 1820. Sir John Stoddart sitting on a chair

Queen Carolines procession
Luciferas procession, Fairy-queen, 1821. Queen Caroline as Lucifera sitting in a coach made of objects which figured in the evidence against her

An old friend with a new face or the baron in disguise, 1821. A bison with the head of Bartolomeo Pergami is embraced by Queen Caroline

The man of the woods & the cat-o -mountain, 1821. A monkey with Alderman Matthew Woods head squats beside a plump cat with the head of Queen Caroline; he puts his left hand on her shoulder

Moments of pleasure, 1820. Queen Caroline, seated on a couch receives the news of the Bill of Pains and Penalties being dropped and Alderman Matthew Wood dances around in front of her

The secret insult! or bribery & corruption rejected!!!, 1820. Queen Caroline stands facing Lord Hutchinson, who begs her to abandon her claim to the throne; on the right is Alderman Matthew Wood in

Stewards Court of the Manor of Torre Devon, 1820. Artist
Stewards Court of the Manor of Torre Devon, 1820. Scene of the House of Lords as arranged for the Bill of Pains and Penalties intended to strip Queen Caroline of her tittles

The Kentish lottery - or a new way to pay old debts, 1819. The Duke of Kent and Lord Mayor of London Sir Matthew Wood advertising a lottery scheme

Interior of the Guildhall, City of London, 1816. Artist: George Hawkins
Interior of the Guildhall, City of London, 1816. With a dedication to Matthew Wood, Lord Mayor of London in 1816, in the lower margin

Caroline, Consort of George IV, 1820. Artist: C Dyer
Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV, 1820, as she appeared at the balcony at Alderman Matthew Woods on her arrival in London

Returning Justice lifts aloft her Scale, 1821. Caroline of Brunswick, between Bergami and Alderman Wood, falls from the tilting summit of a breaking pillar which rests on the word Adultery

A Wooden Substitute, or Any Port in a Storm, 1821. Alderman Wood takes Caroline of Brunswicks left arm, staring at her and grinning inanely; in the background Bergami stands with arms raised

The Q-ns Ass in a Band-box, 1821. Caroline of Brunswick, inside a box, sits on a zebra which stands in a round band-box; the zebra, with the head of Alderman Wood

The Royal Extinguisher, or the King of Brobdingnag & the Lilliputians, 1821. George IV, surrounded by admiring ministers, holds up an extinguisher made of paper

An Emblem of Wisdom Made of Wood, 1820. The head of Alderman Matthew Wood with the body of an owl, punning on the word wood

Civic anointing - or - the catastrophe of Lord Mayors Day 1827, vide Guildhall, 1827
Civic anointing - or - the catastrophe of Lord Mayors Day 1827, vide Guildhall ; a large board containing fairy lamps plummets towards the new Lord Mayor, Matthias Prime Lucas and guests

Guildhall, London, 1816. Artist: George Hawkins
Interior view of the Guildhall with a dedication to Matthew Wood, Lord Mayor of London, 1816, in the lower margin

A serio comic extravaganza... 1820. George IV seems to be dismissing a petition from the Lord Mayor, John Thomas Thorp, introduced by Alderman Matthew Wood (?)

The Unexpected Visit or more free than welcome, 1820. George IV, seated on a cushion in the Brighton Royal Pavilion, throwing up his arms in horror at the entry of the Queen closely followed by

King Henry VIII, act II, scene iv, c1820. Artist
King Henry VIII, act II, scene iv, c1820. A performance of the play. George IV, as Henry VIII, sits on the dais under a canopy; two cardinals gape at Queen Caroline who, as Catherine of Aragon

St Stephens Bell Man, 1820. Viscount Castlereagh, in a bell-mans caped coat, shouts outside Alderman Woods house in South Audley Street. Queen Caroline replies from an open window

Mother Wood, the popular procuress!, 1820. Artist: Isaac Robert Cruikshank
Mother Wood, the popular procuress!, 1820. Alderman Wood, dressed as an elderly woman, stands in the porch of his house in South Audley Street holding a bottle inscribed Popularity; the allusion is

Fracas Royal Extraordinaire, 1820. Artist: Isaac Robert Cruikshank
Fracas Royal Extraordinaire, 1820. The Duke of York punching King George IV in the face, watched by Queen Caroline, Alderman Matthew Wood and others. With satirical verses beneath

Queen Caroline and Mrs Wood, 1820. Brandenburgh House theatricals, a Wood scene in a new farce now performing with the greatest eclat at the Hammersmith theatre

Jack Ketch executing sentence on a culprit, 1832. Artist
Jack Ketch executing sentence on a culprit, 1832. A hangman pulls at a rope secured around the neck of a bust of the Duke of Wellington; John Key, Matthew Wood and Robert Waithman cheer him

City election candidates of 1812. A View of the Starting Post and List of the Horses and their Riders who Started for the City Plate October 5th 1812

A Wood-in Triumph, or a New Idol for the Ragamuffins, 1809. Artist: C Williams
A Wood-in Triumph, or a New Idol for the Ragamuffins, 1809. A crowd of labourers and beggars doffing their hats or drawing the Lord Mayors coach, containing Sheriff Wood

Alderman Sir Matthew Wood and King George IV
The Modern Belshazzers Feast; Alderman Sir Matthew Wood presents an envelope marked the Queens letter to the Prince Regents dinner table which falls into disarray

Lord Mayors Show, 1816
Scene of Lord Mayor Matthew Woods procession passing St Pauls Cathedral, on Lord Mayors Day, 1816, when he was sworn in a second time as Lord Mayor; with a key to the figures below

Sir Matthew Wood, Lord Mayor 1815-1817 Artist: George Patten
Portrait of Sir Matthew Wood, Lord Mayor 1815-1817

Matthew Wood, 1820. Wood (1768-1843), English political and municipal reformer, was Lord Mayor of London 1815-1816 and 1816-1817

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