print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1985,0119.238
- Title
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Object: Bombarding the Barricades or the Storming of Apsley House
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Series: The Caricaturist
- Description
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Plate 7: satire, showing advocates of the Reform Bill, Brougham, Grey, Russell and Holland, at left, attacking Apsley House, home of the Duke of Wellington, who is seen on the roof at right, responding to his older brother, Richard Colley Wellesley, emerging from the chimney of another building; Robert Peel and a bishop trying to protect Wellington's house, while Lord Ellenborough escapes to far right. February 1832
Hand-coloured etching (possibly transferred to a lithographic stone)
- Production date
- 1832
- Dimensions
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Height: 247 millimetres
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Width: 337 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Folded for insertion into the magazine.
Information about the figures was kindly supplied by Paul Cox (National Portrait Gallery, London), who identified the bishop as probably Henry Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
2015 Mar-Jun, London, NPG, The Duke of Wellington
- Acquisition date
- 1985
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1985,0119.238
