IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225237 accession number: P.14648-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Thursday 6 January 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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 King George IV (1762-1830) seated on a chaise, a female child (The 'little' Queen of Portugal), seen from behind, at his knee, and Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, 1769-1852; Prime Minister from 1828 to 1830) standing before him. Two more figures, Lord Aberdeen, Foreign Minister (George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, 1784-1860) and Lord Beresford (William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, 1st Marquis of Campo Maior, 1768-1854), stand behind a curtain on the right. The artist's initials at lower left (probably added by the lithographer): 'HB.'. The title and publisher's details printed below the border at the centre: 'A POLITICAL RIDDLE / Published by T. McLean, 26. Haymarket, June 6. 1829'. Handwritten in graphite at upper right: '21'. See 15795,_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, pp. 159-160. A number '[21]' printed in square brackets in the right-hand margin on p. 159 relates to the handwritten number at upper right, both referencing the sequence of John Doyle's Political Sketches series. title: satirical print LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Given by Mrs J.E. Foster, 1895 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225237 TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1829 - 1829 creation date earliest: 1829 creation date latest: 1829 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Doyle, John (HB) maker: McLean, Thomas