IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225305 accession number: P.14716-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Lithograph (uncoloured) on white wove paper. Inlaid within a frame of buff wove paper (approx. height 360mm x width 515mm). A weak impression with a diagonal crease across the paper from centre left to lower right. A spider's web, with Talleyrand as the spider at upper right. The fly at centre left has Palmerston's head. Signed with monogram at lower left: 'HB'. Title printed below the border: 'A VENERABLE SPIDER & A BUZZING FLY. (A FABLE)'. Below the title: 'For the moral thereof vide No.619 of the John Bull.'. The publisher's details printed below left: 'Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket, Nov. 9th 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.]. Poorly inked. Printed above the border at upper right: 'HB Sketches No. 230'. See 17298_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, p.700. 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/225305 TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1832 - 1832 creation date earliest: 1832 creation date latest: 1832 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Doyle, John (HB) maker: McLean, Thomas