IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225245 accession number: P.14656-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Thursday 6 January 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Lithograph (uncoloured) on white wove paper. Inlaid within a frame of buff wove paper (approx. height 360mm x width 515mm). Cobbett (William Cobbett, 1763-1835) stands on a podium in the centre-right foreground, viewed in profile, facing left, his audience below. Cobbett holds a small baton or stick aloft in his right hand and a line issues from his mouth towards the printed speech to the left: ' "There is but one man / in the Country who can / extricate it from difficulties / why don't you send _Him_ to Parliament?" '. The artist's initials in monogram at lower right: 'HB'. Title printed below the border: 'COBBETT'S LECTURE'. The publisher's details printed below: 'Pubd March 17th 1830 by THOMAS McLEAN, 26 Haymarket'. Handwritten in graphite at upper right: '55'. See 16071,_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, pp. 277. A number '[55]' printed in square brackets in the right-hand margin on p. 277 relates to the handwritten number at upper right, both referencing the sequence of John Doyle's Political Sketches series. P.14657-R is another impression. title: satirical print LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Given by Mrs J.E. Foster, 1895 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225245 TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1830 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1830 creation date latest: 1830 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Doyle, John (HB) maker: McLean, Thomas