print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.11974
- Title
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Object: New game of snap-apple.
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Series: Political Sketches
- Description
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No. 646. A man looking over a wall in background at centre (Lord Grey), holding a string with an apple with two men's faces (Lord Howick and Charles Wood), which five boys are biting at alternately (at left, Lords Russell and Morpeth; at right, Emerson Tennent, Sir James Graham, Lord Stanley); two adults looking on at far left (Daniel O'Connell) and far right (Sir Robert Peel). 1 July 1840
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1840
- Dimensions
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Height: 347 millimetres
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Width: 263 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For preliminary drawing see 1882,1209.474
Text from 'An Illustrative Key to the Political Sketches of H.B.', London 1844:
The two seceding Members, Lord Howick and Mr. Charles "Wood, (see No. DCXXXVIII) are represented in this sketch as a prize, for which the rivals, Lord Stanley and Lord Morpeth are contending, after the fashion of the well known school-game of Snap Apple. The resemblance of the scene to the play-ground of a school is rendered perfect by the friends of the two antagonists respectively taking sides. Lord Stanley, on the right, is assisted by Sir James Graham and Mr. Emmerson Tennant; and Lord Morpeth, on the left, by Lord John Russell. Behind his Lordship stands Mr. O'Connell, as an umpire on one side, and behind Lord Stanley Sir Robert Peel stands as the umpire on the other. The game, however, is not left to chance, or to the skill of the players; for over the wall, unobserved, as it seems by any one, the venerable Earl Grey is using a little paternal influence to direct the suspended fruit into the mouth of Lord Morpeth.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.11974
