print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.8833
- Title
- Object: The Marquess Wellesley's hounds in full cry!!
- Description
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An Irish print. Wellesley (left), in Viceregal robes, stands looking down with quizzical appraisal at a pack of suppliant and weeping dogs with human heads which are well characterized. He holds out a document: Kings Le[tter]. Behind him are a beefeater and draperies indicating the throne. The dogs are led by a lean greyhound marked C, with the head of Lord Manners in his Chancellor's wig; his collar, inscribed Chan . . ., is linked by a chain to the dog on his left, marked S . m [? William Saurin, Solicitor-General]. On Manners's right are a bishop with a mitre-shaped cap inscribed D [? Lord George Beresford, Archbishop of Dublin], and a dog with a handkerchief to his eye and with a coat-collar inscribed Charles Ba . . . [? C. K. Bushe (C.J. of the K.B. since Feb. 1822)]. A very stout dog wearing a double gold chain, and with B. BC on his coat-collar, is placarded: Ferret. Sheep Skin. Behind him is one with a similar placard: a Treasury Black. Next is a dog wearing an indeterminate coronet and marked M. [? Marquis of Waterford]. Conspicuous at the back of the pack (right) is King, placarded FR. Friendly Brothers, see BM Satires 14524. A little aloof and in the background, small and insignificant, is Lees, placarded Antidote, see BM Satires 14515. There are three others, without distinguishing marks, in front of the peer, the one in the middle has some resemblance to Plunket (Attorney-General) whose presence may be presumed. Those in the foreground (and presumably the others) have their tails between their legs. 1822?
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1822
- Dimensions
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Height: 218 millimetres
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Width: 320 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', X, 1952)
See No. 14405, &c. The policy of conciliation enjoined in the King's letter, see No. 14508, brought him into conflict with the Castle and the 'Protestants', and especially with the Orange Lodges represented by King.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.8833
