IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225281 accession number: P.14692-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Thursday 6 January 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. 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/225281 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 maker: Monogrammist A (with John Doyle [HB])