Mazeppa. Plate 2nd: P.14714-R

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Mazeppa. Plate 2nd
HB Sketches No. 228

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). The sequel to No. 219 (See P.14712-R) and based on another representation of the Mazeppa story by Horace Vernet. King William IV lies on the ground, able now to free himself from the dying wild horse. The horses around him have human heads, from left to right: Richmond, Lord John Russell, Grey, Durham, Althorp and Sir James Graham. Signed with monogram at lower left: 'HB'. Title printed below the border: 'MAZEPPA. / PLATE 2nd.'. The publisher's details printed below left: 'Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket, Sepr. 25th 1832.'. A small, circular blind stamp at lower left: 'THOs. MCLEAN'. Printer's details below the border at lower right: 'A. Ducôté's Lithogy. 70, St Martins Lane.'. Printed above the border at upper right: 'HB Sketches No. 228'. See 17261_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, p.685.