IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225285 accession number: P.14696-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: '*Here the Speaker was interrupted by a peculiar kind of noise; which induced him to defer until some other occasion the remainder of his Speech'. Brougham (without wig) sits on a chaise beside a sleeping King William IV. Brougham is speaking, but has apparently not noticed that the King is asleep: 'Then, I say that for these _various_ and _manifold_ resons, it may become matter of grave deliberation, with your M-J-ty whether in the undoubted exercise of your R-y-l / prerogative you should not * ..........'. Groups of ladies and gentlemen sitting on ottomans in the background watch the pair from the left. Signed with monogram at lower left: 'HB'. Title printed below the border: 'AN AFTER DINNER SCENE / (AT WINDSOR)'. The publisher's details printed below border at left: 'Published by Thos McLean, 26, Haymarket, Octr. 12th 1831.'. The printer's details are not given but there is evidence that they have been excised from the plate at lower right. George states that the printer was Charles Motte. Printed above the border at upper right: 'HB Sketches No 160.'. See 16796,_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, pp.529-30. 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/225285 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