print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1868,0808.12143
Title: Object: The "pas de fascination" (from the ballet of Alma); Series: Political Sketches
Description: No. 810. A man in background at left playing the timbrel at far left (Sir Robert Peel), a man in foreground at left waving his hands (Sir James Graham); three men dressed as women dancing at right (Sir Thomas Acland, Charles Buller or Lord Mahon, Mr Liddell), a man wearing a turban standing in background (Lord Ashley); a man standing at centre (Sir Robert Inglis) looking on in horror. 1 July 1844 Lithograph, printed in fawn and black inks
Producer name: Print made by: John Doyle (HB); Printed by: General Lithographic Establishment; Published by: Thomas McLean
School/style
Production date: 1844
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: lithograph; colour
Dimensions: Height: 270 millimetres; Width: 347 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For preliminary drawing see 1882,1209.581 According to 'A Key to the Political Sketches of H.B. Nos. 801 to 887', London (undated), published by T. McLean, the fifth character from left is Lord Mahon; however, the preliminary drawing is inscribed with the name of Charles Buller.
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Representation of: Sir Robert Peel; Representation of: Sir James Robert George Graham; Representation of: Sir Robert Harry Inglis, 2nd Baronet; Representation of: Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet; Representation of: Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope (?); Representation of: Charles Buller (?); Representation of: Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury; Associated with: Sir Michael Andrew Angus Costa
Associated titles
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0808.12143

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