print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1868,0808.12221
Title: Object: A fancy ball, winding up with Sir Roger de Coverley.; Series: Political Sketches
Description: No. 888. A group of men, and men dressed as a woman, dancing (from left to right, Lord Palmerston, Peter Borthwick, Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Joseph Hume, Duke of Rutland, Sir Frederick Trench, George Hudson, Colonel Sibthorpe, Lord Russell, Sir James Graham, Thomas Duncombe, Sir Robert Peel, Benjamin Disraeli, John Arthus Roebuck, George Bentinck, Duke of Wellington, Lord Brougham, Sir Robert Inglis, Lord Cottenham, Charles Shaw-Lefevre, Lord Lincoln, Lord Morpeth). 26 July 1846 or 1847 Lithograph, printed in fawn and black inks
Producer name: Print made by: John Doyle (HB); Printed by: Thomas McLean; Published by: Thomas McLean
School/style
Production date: 1846-1847
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: lithograph; colour
Dimensions: Height: 259 millimetres; Width: 506 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For preliminary drawings see 1882,1209.620 and 1882,1209.622
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; dance
Associated names: Representation of: Sir Robert Peel; Representation of: Lord George Bentinck; Representation of: Lord John Russell (later John Russell, 1st Earl Russell of Kingston Russell); Representation of: Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston; Representation of: Peter Borthwick; Representation of: John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton; Representation of: Joseph Hume; Representation of: John James Robert Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland; Representation of: Sir Frederick William Trench; Representation of: George Hudson; Representation of: Col Charles de Laet Waldo Sibthorp; Representation of: Sir James Robert George Graham; Representation of: Thomas Slingsby Duncombe; Representation of: Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield; Representation of: Right Hon John Arthur Roebuck; Representation of: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington; Representation of: Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux; Representation of: Sir Robert Harry Inglis, 2nd Baronet; Representation of: Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle; Representation of: Charles Christopher Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham; Representation of: Charles Shaw-Lefevre, Viscount Eversley; Representation of: George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0808.12221

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