All the Talents April 18, 1807 Thomas Rowlandson Created as a frontispiece to a satirical poem, Rowlandson's etching is based on a drawing by Barrett, the author. The satire responds to the recent fall of a British parliamentary coalition known as the "Broad Bottom Administration," or "All the Talents." Its diverse membership is symbolized by a creature with the head and tail of a monkey, but human body, wearing a judge's wig beneath the mitre of an episcopal bishop and holding a Catholic crosier. Its suit mixes a lawyer's bands with a laced coat, ragged breeches, single shoe, and a French jackboot. The burning papers below refer to the Administration's negotiations with France, and its lost sinecures and patronages. A musket labeled "Army," fired with its right foot, causes volumes labeled "Magna Charta" and "Coronation Oath" to fall from a shelf. With a quill, the animal points to new financial projects, the slip of paper "Country dances" below alluding to the Chancellor of the Exche