IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225268 accession number: P.14679-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Monday 18 September 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Lithograph (uncoloured) on white wove paper. Inlaid within a frame of buff wove paper (approx. height 360mm x width 515mm). The Duke of Wellington, styled as an old woman wearing a hooded cloak and dress, places a wreath onto a tomb which bears the inscription: 'Here Lyeth the British Constitution / which after a rapid decline of ten years / Departed this World ... 1841.'. Signed with monogram at lower left: 'HB'. Title printed below the border: 'A VERY PROPHETICAL AND PATHETICAL ALLEGORY.' The publisher's details printed below: 'London: Published by Thos McLean, 26, Haymarket, April 4th, 1831.'. Printer's details below the border at lower right: 'Printed by C. Motte, 23, Leicester Sqre.'. Printed at upper right: 'HB Sketches No. 119'. See 16633,_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, p. 462. 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/225268 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