print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.11538
- Title
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Object: A great actor playing to empty benches.
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Series: Political Sketches
- Description
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No. 226. Brougham makes a speech in the dimly-lit House of Lords, the chief light coming from two shaded candles on the Table, where the Clerk is writing. Behind him (left) sits the Duke of Sussex. There is one figure in back view, Munster, and one on the opposite bench, Lord Rosslyn. 14 September 1832
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1832
- Dimensions
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Height: 276 millimetres
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Width: 363 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- With eye-shaped blindstamp at bottom left, lettered with 'Subscribers copy' and HB's monogram at centre.
(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954)
On 15 August Brougham delivered a great speech on Chancery Reform, reported at length by the 'Morning Chronicle' with a comment on the "very strange" appearance of the House during the greater part of the speech, "only a glimmering of light and there were but four peers . . . the Chairman of Committees (Lord Shaftesbury), the Duke of Sussex, and the Earls of Fife and Rosslyn".
Reproduced, Veth, pl. xlv; Garratt, 'Lord Brougham', 1935, p. 248.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.11538