print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1857,1222.84
- Title
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Object: Gratitude
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Series: Political Sketches
- Description
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No. 333. A man dressed in a dark cloak, wearing a wig, standing in profile to left (Lord Brougham), offering the Privy seal to a man seated on a chair, in profile to right (Lord Grey). 25 July 1834
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1834
- Dimensions
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Height: 271 millimetres
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Width: 348 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Text from 'An Illustrative Key to the Political Sketches of H.B.', London 1841:
What seemed at first to be a total break-up of the Cabinet, proved to be nothing more than a convulsive effort to throw out Earl Grey and his Irish Coercion Bill; which was no sooner effected, than the parts which had seemed to be in a state of dissolution resumed their cohesion. The reader, if he have forgotten the history of Lord Grey's entrance to power, and the appointment of Lord Brougham to the Great Seal, will require to be referred to No. XCII for an elucidation of Lord Brougham's allusion to the Attorney-Generalship. The gratitude consists of an offer of the Privy Seal to Earl Grey. Thus stood the account - Lord Grey offered the comparatively humble office of Attorney-General to Mr. Brougham, when his talents and power, as a public man, enabled him to command the highest legal appointment in the kingdom. Lord Brougham presented to Earl Grey, when he had just retired from the office of Premier, the insignificant place of Lord Privy Seal. Every reader will judge for himself on which side the balance lay.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1857
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1857,1222.84