1593000235000 1536161107000 Standard Record object-225244 1753812207359 1711457666000 1753812119276 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-225244 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225244 6f132adf-e333-3d43-aaee-2b868022f9ef 7 reference term-98032 adlib-term-98032 82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea print Paintings, Drawings and Prints Lithograph (uncoloured) on white wove paper. Inlaid within a frame of buff wove paper (approx. height 360mm x width 515mm). An interior scene around a cloth-covered table with Wellington (Duke of Wellington; Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, 1769-1852; Prime Minister from 1828 to 1830) seated at the left, Peel (Sir Robert Peel; Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, 1788-1850; Prime Minister, 1834–1835 and 1841–1846) seated beside him. Wellington holds a paper taken from an open displatch box. The actor, John Liston (1776-1846) in the character of Paul Pry stands before the two men offering his hat and holding an umbrella under his left arm. Paul Pry was characterised as a meddlesome and mischievous fellow consumed with curiosity and unable to mind his own business and was played by Liston in the three-act farce of the same name which premiered at the Haymarket Theatre in London on 13 September 1825. Text contained inside a (faint) speech bubble: 'I have just dropped in to ask / you a little question, I want to know - / if you are really desirous to releive [sic] / the people by retrenchment and / economy - why you don't begin / by reducing your own / Salaries?'. Wellington answers in text contained inside a speech bubble (faint): 'Your question Sir, is a very / impertinent question! / and I take it to be / exceedingly personal!'. Peel responds with text inside a (faint) speech bubble: 'What a very / disagreeable question!'. The title is printed below the border: 'A VERY IM['IM' struck through]PERTINENT QUESTION'. The publisher's details printed below, the lower part of the text cropped by the edge of the paper: 'Published by Thomas McLean 26 Haymarket, 3rd March 1830'. Handwritten in graphite at upper right: '54'. See 16065,_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, pp. 273-4. A number '[54]' printed in square brackets in the right-hand margin on p. 273 relates to the handwritten number at upper right, both referencing the sequence of John Doyle's Political Sketches series. P.14655-R 1 accession number P.14655-R 225244 priref 225244 Stephens/George 16065 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225244 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225244 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by Mrs J.E. Foster, 1895 reference agent-196348 adlib-agent-196348 7a29f074-14dd-396d-8d34-f9aa7135d116 Foster, J.E., Mrs 1895 1895 1895 given 1830 1830 1830-03-03 printmaker reference agent-38464 adlib-agent-38464 617bb474-08f5-3f0f-b0eb-5b14e333d1fd Doyle, John (HB) publisher reference agent-153598 adlib-agent-153598 8a967456-ea12-3326-83ff-cb696304c272 McLean, Thomas height 285mm x width 356mm reference term-106853 adlib-term-106853 25492eb4-1164-35eb-8dce-3601486f3415 19th Century reference term-135555 adlib-term-135555 0e6c1c63-550d-34c9-ac66-cd1c2831ef9b satirical print reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-9168 adlib-term-9168 6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f British

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