IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225266 accession number: P.14677-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Lithograph (uncoloured) on white wove paper. Inlaid within a frame of buff wove paper (approx. height 360mm x width 515mm). A race-horse with Althorp's head (John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer, Viscount Althorp, 1782-1845; Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne from 1830 to 1834) and with a scarred foreleg is in a paddock and is covered with a horse coat. William IV stands to the right with Earl Grey (Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, 1764-1845; Prime Minister from 22 November 1830 to 16 July 1834) and says: 'A bad business this, Grey, to break down in our _first_ trial, eh!'. Grey replies: 'All the Boy Paulet's fault Sir, and the hardness of the New Ground; ...'. Wellington and Peel observe and comment in the background at the far left. The artist's initials in monogram at lower left: 'HB'. Title printed below the border: A SCREW-LOOSE. The publisher's details printed below: 'London: Published by Thos McLean, 26, Haymarket, March 1st 1831.'. Printer's details below the border at lower right: 'Printed by C. Motte, 23, Leicester Sqre.'. Printed at upper right: 'HB Sketches No. 111'. See 16601,_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, p. 450-451. 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/225266 TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1831 - 1831 creation date earliest: 1831 creation date latest: 1831 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Doyle, John (HB) maker: McLean, Thomas