IDENTIFIERS
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id:	225268
accession number:	P.14679-R

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Wednesday 5 September 2018
updated:	Tuesday 26 March 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: Given by Mrs J.E. Foster, 1895

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225268





TECHNIQUES
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lithography

CATEGORIES
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category: print

DATING
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creation date:	1831 - 1831
creation date earliest:	1831
creation date latest:	1831
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Doyle, John (HB)
maker: McLean, Thomas