A Peep into the State Farm Yard: P.14674-R

Current Location: In storage

Titles

A Peep into the State Farm Yard
HB Sketches No. 103

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Doyle, John (HB)
Publisher: McLean, Thomas

Entities

Satirical print

Description

Lithograph (uncoloured) on white wove paper. Inlaid within a frame of buff wove paper (approx. height 360mm x width 515mm). Althorp (John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer, 1782-1845; Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne from 1830 to 1834) and Grey (Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, 1764-1845; Prime Minister from 22 November 1830 to 16 July 1834), dressed as farmers, inspect an enormous cow which is munching coins from a manger on the left. Grey, on the right asks: 'What shall we do with these of the sinecure breed? ...'. Althorp puts his right hand on the rump of the cow and says: 'I mean to get rid of them altogether _if I can_ ...'. The artist's initials in monogram at lower left: 'HB'. Title printed below the border: A PEEP into the STATE FARM YARD'. The publisher's details printed below: 'London, Published by Thos McLean, 26 Haymarket, Jany. 8th, 1831.'. Printer's details below the border at lower right: 'Printed by C. Motte, 23, Leicester Sqre.'. Handwritten in graphite at upper right: '103'. See 16548,_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, p. 432. A number '[103]' printed in square brackets in the right-hand margin on p. 432 relates to the handwritten number at upper right, both referencing the sequence of John Doyle's Political Sketches series.