Current Location: In storage
Titles
The Old White Lion
HB Sketches No. 3
Maker(s)
Printmaker:
Doyle, John (HB)
Publisher:
McLean, Thomas
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Description
Lithograph (uncoloured) on white wove paper. Inlaid within a frame of buff wove paper (approx. height 360mm x width 515mm). Scene in an interior featuring John Scott, 1st Baron Eldon (1751-1838), Lord Chancellor from 1801 to 1806 and again from 1807 to 1827, the Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), who was Prime Minister from 1828 to 1830 and John Singleton Copley, Lord Lyndhurst (1772-1863), Eldon's successor as Lord Chancellor. The Duke of Wellington stands at the centre, printed speech to the left: 'Come my old friend - don't take your / defeat so much to heart - you fought well! / & altho' you did throw a large paving Stone / at me, I -'. Eldon sits in a chair to the left, his left elbow resting on some books on a table, printed speech to his right: 'Poh! I threw no paving stone / at you - but you all like to have / a dash at the Old Chancellor!'. Lyndhurst in gown and wig enters from the right with printed speech to the right: 'There he is - just like / an old white Lion'. The artist's initials in monogram at lower left: 'HB'. Printed below the border at lower left: 'Printed by C. Motte, 23. Leicester Sq.'. Title and publisher's details printed below the border at the centre: 'THE OLD WHITE LION / Published by Thos. McLean, 26. Haymarket'. Handwritten in graphite at upper right: '3'. See 15831,_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, p. 176. George states that the publication date of '7 July 1829' is known from a handwritten inscription in pen and ink. A number '[3]' printed in square brackets in the right-hand margin on p. 176 relates to the handwritten number at upper right, both referencing the sequence of John Doyle's Political Sketches series.
Legal notes
Given by Mrs J.E. Foster, 1895
