Current Location: In storage
Titles
The Breaking Up Of The Half Crown-ation
HB Sketches No. 156
Maker(s)
Printmaker:
Doyle, John (HB)
Publisher:
McLean, Thomas
Draughtsman:
Monogrammist A (with John Doyle [HB])
(After)
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Description
Lithograph (uncoloured) on white wove paper. Inlaid within a frame of buff wove paper (approx. height 360mm x width 515mm). Below the title: 'Go call a Coach & let a Coach be Called, - And he who Calls the Coach, let him be the Caller - And let him Nothing call, but Coach! / Coach! Coach! Oh! for a Coach, ye Gods.'. A crowded scene outside the door of Westminster abbey, which is indicated by a striped awning in the background. It is raining heavily and peers wearing robes and coronets carry umbrellas. Recognisable figures are: The Duke of Devonshire (in the right foreground); Lord Howe (seen from behind), who shouts: 'A Horse! a Horse! / my _coronet_ for a / Horse!'.; Daniel O'Connell, speaking to Hume in the left background; Talleyrand, who pushes Wellington saying: 'G-d D-m it, can't you have patience! ...'. Wellington says: 'I'll walk!'. Brougham, recognisable in his judge's wig, stands behind (very sketchily represented) beside a Beefeater who holds an umbrella over his head. Signed with initial and monogram at lower left: 'A & HB'. The initial 'A' precedes HB's monogram to indicate additional authorship of the design. See George, introduction, xlviii. Title printed below the border: 'THE BREAKING UP / OF THE HALF CROWN-ATION.'. The publisher's details printed below left: 'Published by Thos McLean, 26, Haymarket, Sepr. 23rd 1831.'. Printer's details below the border at lower right: 'C. Motte's Lithogy. St. Martins Lane'. Printed above the border at upper right: 'HB Sketches No 156.'. See 16777,_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, p.523.
Legal notes
Given by Mrs J.E. Foster, 1895
