Creamware jug commemorating the Peterloo Massacre, 1819
jug, jug
Accession Number
NAM.2015-03-8-1
Description
Moulded creamware jug, with lustre decoration and transfer print, maker unknown, 1819; titled in script , ‘HUNT and LIBERTY/ BAD LUCK TO THE MANCHESTER BUTCHERS’, with a portrait of Henry ‘Orator’ Hunt, and ‘ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY/ MAN TO DO HIS DUTY/ BUT NONE OF YOUR/ BUTCHERING CAVALRY’; produced after the Peterloo Massacre, Civil Unrest (1819).
Events
Peterloo Massacre, 1819 (Civil Unrest 1800-1899)
Units
People
