IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225334 accession number: P.14745-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). Thomas Spring Rice, as Orpheus, plays his harp to Pluto (Joseph Hume), who is seated on a throne, the three-headed dog, Cerberus to his left. Signed with artist's monogram at lower left: 'HB'. Title printed below the border: 'ORPHEUS DRAWING IRON TEARS DOWN PLUTO'S CHEEK.'. Below the title: '---- Vide Mr S Rice's Speech on the Repeal of the Union. / "Pluto [(Hume)] [struckthrough] is looked upon as hardhearted and inexorable, with a grim and dismal countenance." Lempriere.'. The publisher's details printed below the border to the left: 'Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket, May 5th 1834.'. A small, circular blind stamp at lower left: 'THOs. MCLEAN'. Printer's details below the border to the right: 'A. Ducôté's Lithog. 70, St Martins Lane'. Printed above the border at upper right: 'HB Sketches No. 318.'. 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/225334 TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1834 - 1834 creation date earliest: 1834 creation date latest: 1834 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Doyle, John (HB) maker: McLean, Thomas