print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.8996
- Title
- Object: The man vot drives "The chancery" fast-coach!
- Description
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A portrait of Lyndhurst on the box-seat of a coach directed to the left, and looking to the front, holding the reins of a four-in-hand. He wears a neat greatcoat with big buttons, open to show his black knee-breeches; broad-brimmed hat with short powdered wig, and a nosegay. He holds up his right hand (in which is the whip), raising two fingers. Above his head: 'Now your Honour! Going off with the finest set o' hanimals you ever clapp'd your eyes on;—just added a fresh hoss to my Team! & a good Judge he is too:—' On his box-seat are the Royal Arms, and below: 'To Copley' in large letters. May 1829
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1829
- Dimensions
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Height: 350 millimetres
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Width: 252 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954)
One of many imitations of Heath's set of coaching portraits of protagonists in the Emancipation contest, see No. 15731, &c. The 'fresh hoss' is evidently Tindal, see No. 15821; for Lyndhurst cf. No. 15705. One of a set (coloured) hostile to Emancipation, see Nos. 15743, 15749, 15750, 15751.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.8996
