print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1852,1116.571
- Title
- Object: A discharg'd Fife-r
- Description
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Lord Fife, fashionably dressed, wearing full, strapped trousers, walks in profile to the right on a pavement, using a cane. April 25 1821; this impression a re-issue
Etching
- Production date
- 1821
- Dimensions
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Height: 302 millimetres
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Width: 180 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', X, 1952)
Fife (1776-1857), M.P. for Banffshire, was dismissed from his place of Lord of the Bedchamber for voting against the malt tax. He protested on 3 Apr. against the occasion of the dismissal (from a post he was anxious to resign). Parl. Deb., N.S. v. 32-4; Greville, Memoirs, 1938, i. 116. For a reduced copy see No. 14817 (5). Cf. Nos. 14275, 14276.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1852
- Acquisition notes
- 1852,1116.546 to 582 are entered in the register as 'Purchased by Mr Carpenter'. Presumably he had acquired these with his own funds, against re- imbursement by the British Museum.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1852,1116.571