print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1868,0808.12184
Title: Object: The drill.; Series: Political Sketches
Description: No. 851. A man dressed in military uniform, wearing a top hat (Sir Robert Peel), standing at left in profile to right, drilling his squad (from left to right, Lord Somerset, three unidentified men, Henry Goulburn, Lords Lyndhurst and Aberdeen, Duke of Wellington, Lord Ellenborough); a man at far right (Lord Stanley) disobeys the second order, walking away towards right. 18 January 1846 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: 1846
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: lithograph; colour
Dimensions: Height: 280 millimetres (top edge obscured by binding; trimmed or cut?); Width: 369 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For preliminary drawings see recto and verso of 1882,1209.599
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Representation of: Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby; Representation of: Lord Granville Somerset; Representation of: Henry Goulburn; Representation of: John Singleton Copley, Baron Lyndhurst; Representation of: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington; Representation of: George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen; Representation of: Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough; Representation of: Sir Robert Peel
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0808.12184

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