print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.11662
- Title
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Object: Hide and Seek.
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Series: Political Sketches
- Description
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No. 345. A man standing to right on tiptoes on a stack of newspapers lettered with 'The Times.', looking over the top of large sheets of papers placed vertically on the floor to form a wall, lettered with 'The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal (No. CXXI.) October, 1834. [...]'; a man hiding between the pages to left, wearing a wig, dipping a pen held in his right hand into a cup lettered with 'Gall'. 6 November 1834
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1834
- Dimensions
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Height: 280 millimetres
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Width: 321 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Text from 'An Illustrative Key to the Political Sketches of H.B.', London 1841:
The 'Edinburgh Review', published in October, 1834, contained an article "On the last session of Parliament," in which the part taken by Lord Durham in the preparation of the Reform Bill was commented upon with great freedom. The publication of this number was immediately followed by a letter from Lord Durham to the editor of the 'Review', in which he said, "if the statement came directly or indirectly from a member of Lord Grey's government, he has been guilty of gross misrepresentation, and a suppression of the truth. If it did not, I have a right to complain of your having published charges against my public character, founded on assumed facts and circumstances which could only be correctly known or stated from official authority." Public report assigned to Lord Brougham the authorship of this article, which, as the inkstand marked "gall" implies, was flavoured with great bitterness against Lord Durham. At this period the 'Times' newspaper, on which the noble Earl has mounted, to detect the Chancellor in the act of scribbling anonymous invectives, was distinguished alike by its censure of Lord Brougham and its praise of Lord Durham.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.11662