drawing; print study

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Object Type: drawing; print study
Museum number: 1882,1209.436
Description: A council of war, study for a satirical print in the series 'Political Sketches', published by Thomas McLean, 1821-1851; O'Connell sitting at a table on which there is a document inscribed 'plan of attack', explaining it to Lords Morpeth, Fortescue and Normanby. 1839 Black chalk touched with pen and black ink Verso: Dentatus; Lord Normanby (Dentatus) defending himself against the onslaught of Lord Roden, Lord Charleville, and Lord Westmeath, while Brougham hurls a stone at him from above, in a parody of Haydon's picture, and with reference to Lord Roden's motion in the House of Lords for a Committee of Inquiry into Lord Normanby's Irish Administration. 1839 Black chalk touched with pen and black ink
Producer name: Drawn by: John Doyle (HB); After: Benjamin Robert Haydon
School/style: British
Production date: 1839
Materials: paper
Technique: drawn
Dimensions: Height: 319 millimetres; Width: 247 millimetres (a corner missing)
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Curator's comments: Study for Political Sketch No 579. Verso: Study for Political Sketch No 583.
Bibliographic references: Binyon 1898-1907 / Catalogue of drawings by British artists, and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain (95)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; politics
Associated names: Portrait of: George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle; Portrait of: Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux; Portrait of: Daniel O'Connell; Portrait of: Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue, Viscount Ebrington; Portrait of: Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby; Portrait of: Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden; Portrait of: Lord Charleville; Portrait of: George Thomas John Nugent, 1st Marquess of Westmeath
Associated places: Associated with: Windsor
Acquisition name: Purchased from: James Edmund Doyle
Acquisition date: 1882
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1882,1209.436

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