print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1857,1222.72
- Title
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Object: Othello.
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Series: Political Sketches
- Description
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No. 323. A black man, wearing a turban, baggy oriental trousers and a curved sword (Lord Brougham in the character of Othello), seated on a bed behind curtains, leaning to left on a pillow lettered 'Protest', smothering the 'Sabbath Bill (House of Lords)' lying underneath, identified with Lord Wynford by the crutch seen to right. 31 May 1834
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1834
- Dimensions
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Height: 275 millimetres
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Width: 347 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Text from 'An Illustrative Key to the Political Sketches of H.B.', London 1841:
On the 15th of May, 1834, Lord Wynford moved the second reading of his Bill for the Better Observance of the Sabbath. The motion was opposed by Lord Brougham, not on the ground of there being no necessity for such a measure, but on account of the many gross blunders in the Bill itself, which he criticized with unsparing ridicule. The Bill was, nevertheless, read a second time, on the understanding that it should be subsequently postponed for a time to be altered and improved, and the Lord-Chancellor entered a protest against it on the journals of the House. The crutch, protruding from beneath the bedclothes, identifies the Sabbath Bill with Lord Wynford, who is so much afflicted with gout and rheumatism, as to be under the necessity of always using crutches; and Lord Brougham, in the character of Othello, is smothering the Bill with his protest.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Othello
- Acquisition date
- 1857
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1857,1222.72
