print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1868,0808.12190
Title: Object: The Trojans petition Dido for protection; Series: Political Sketches
Description: No. 856. A group of men acting as Trojans, kneeling at left, petitioning (among them, from left to right, Dukes of Newcastle, Beaufort, Buckingham, Norfolk, Richmond), in front of stairs leading to a platform, where a woman is seated on a throne (Queen Victoria); three men standing around the throne (behind at centre right, Sir Robert Peel, at far right, Duke of Wellington, Lord Aberdeen, Sir James Graham); a group of men standing at left (John Bright, Richard Cobden, Lord Russell) frowning upon the suppliants. 6 February 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: 261 millimetres; Width: 372 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For preliminary drawings see recto and verso of 1882,1209.602
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Representation of: Sir Robert Peel; Representation of: Right Hon John Bright; Representation of: Richard Cobden; Representation of: Lord John Russell (later John Russell, 1st Earl Russell of Kingston Russell); Representation of: Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle; Representation of: Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort; Representation of: Richard Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos; Representation of: Henry Granville Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk; Representation of: Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox; Representation of: Queen Victoria; Representation of: George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen; Representation of: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington; Representation of: Sir James Robert George Graham; Associated with: Virgil
Associated titles
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0808.12190

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