drawing
- Museum number
- 1886,0619.3
- Description
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Child's play; caricature portraits of Joseph Hume, MP and political reformer, and Lord John Russell, prime minister, each nursing a doll, Hume states "Oh my doll is bigger [?]"
Graphite
Verso: Punch attended by Doctor Peel; Punch in a chair, with Brougham and Wellington as nurse attending him, Peel as doctor feeling his pulse, with studies of Wellington and other heads
Graphite, with pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1849 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 224 millimetres
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Width: 169 millimetres (sight measurement)
- Curator's comments
- Engraved in 'Punch' magazine, Vol XV, p. 7, 1848.
The register gives the production date as 1849.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Punch
- Acquisition date
- 1886
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by the Museum at Doyle's posthumous sale at Christie's in 1886.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1886,0619.3
