"The Gift of Tongues": P.14699-R

Current Location: In storage

Titles

"The Gift of Tongues"
HB Sketches No. 168

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Doyle, John (HB)
Publisher: McLean, Thomas

Entities

Satirical print

Description

Lithograph (uncoloured) on white wove paper. Inlaid within a frame of buff wove paper (approx. height 360mm x width 515mm). Grey, in the role of preacher, stands in a high pulpit on the right, addressing his congregation. John Bull is the figure standing at centre left who is 'speaking in tongues'. Other recognisable figures are: Brougham, in the Clerk's seat below the pulpit; Burdett and Hobhouse sitting on the bench opposite the pulpit; sitting below the pupit are, Lord John Russell (among unidentified heads), Lord Westmorland (seen from behind and raising his right leg), Althorp, Peel, Wellington. Behind and to the right is Aberdeen and beside him is Cumberland, who gives smelling salts to Eldon, who is dressed as an old woman at the far right. King William IV is seen sitting behind, asleep and resting his head on a cushion, his hands over his head. Signed with monogram at lower left: 'HB'. Title printed below the border: "THE GIFT OF TONGUES". The publisher's details printed below: 'Published by Thos McLean, 26, Haymarket, Novr. 26th 1831.'. A small, circular blind stamp at lower left: 'THOs. MCLEAN'. Printed above the border at upper right: 'HB Sketches No 168.'. See 16818,_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, pp.538-9.