print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.11821
- Title
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Object: Susannah and the elders.
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Series: Political Sketches
- Description
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No. 504. Three riders; a young woman at centre (Queen Victoria), between two middle-aged men wearing top hats (Lord Melbourne at left, Lord Palmerston at right). 27 October 1837
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1837
- Dimensions
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Height: 267 millimetres
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Width: 364 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Text from 'An Illustrative Key to the Political Sketches of H.B.', London 1841:
Her Majesty has always shewn a great partiality for equestrian exercise; and, at the date of this sketch, generally rode out every day, attended by several of the nobility, among whom were, frequently, Lord Melbourne and Lord Palmerston. The innocence and purity of the youthful Queen are the grounds on which H.B. has applied to her the name of Susanna (from the Apocrypha), and the respective ages of her two Ministers, so commonly seen among her equestrian attendants, warrants him in appropriating to their use the title of "the elders."
For the sake of those who are not acquainted with the persons of the two Ministers it may be proper to add, that Lord Melbourne is riding by the Queen's right-hand, and Lord Palmerston by her left.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.11821