The Pillar of the State or Jon Bull over-loaded. if the Bull should rise great must be the fall thereof.
Coloured etching by and after Henry Heath.
Published by S W Fores, Piccadilly, 10 Jan 1827.
Human pyramid balancing on a large bull (Great Britain) representing the army within the hierarchy of the state.
A satire on agricultural and industrial distress and on the question of the Corn Laws. Half-pay officers (generally objects of sympathy) are also depicted.