print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.11578
- Title
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Object: A Cabinet Council
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Series: Political Sketches
- Description
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No. 264. At a horse-racing event, a group of four men standing in foreground, holding notebooks, in discussion with each other (Lord Althorp, Lord Grey, Duke of Richmond, Sir James Graham); to left, two rogues looking at the group and wondering who they might be; to right, a man holding up papers in his right hand, selling information about the race; men and horses with jockeys to left and right in background. 29 May 1833
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1833
- Dimensions
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Height: 284 millimetres (approximately)
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Width: 394 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Text from 'An Illustrative Key to the Political Sketches of H.B.', London 1841:
Strange as it may seem, this sketch, of the principal persons composing the administration of this mighty kingdom standing on Epsom Downs, on the day of the great Derby race, was made by H.B. from the life. It would, indeed, be hard to deny, to men whose minds are so severely tasked in the performance of the duties of their offices, all opportunity for relaxation. It would be no less impolitic than unjust to do so; for the mind requires occasional relaxation to retain its power. 'Nee semper tendit arcum Apollo'. It is plain, however, that their appearance in such a place is a novelty, for it gives rise to a suspicion in the minds of those two regular race-course rogues who appear on the left-hand of the picture; the one asking who the strangers may be, and the other answering that they are West-end legs. Poor Lord Althorp! he whom men delighted to call par excellence honest Lord Althorp, to be called a West-end leg!! And his colleagues - quite as honest - Earl Grey, the Duke of Richmond, and Sir James Graham, "all honourable men!" See what it is to be found in suspicious places and in bad company!
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.11578