Cobbett's Lecture HB Sketches No. 55
Printmaker:
Doyle, John (HB)
Publisher:
McLean, Thomas
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 and the lower edges of the letters cropped by the edge of the paper: '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.14656-R is another impression.
Given by Mrs J.E. Foster, 1895
Method of acquisition: Given (1895) by Foster, J.E., Mrs
19th Century
Production date:
AD 1830-03-17
Height 287mm x width 346mm
Accession number: P.14657-R
Primary reference Number: 225246
Stephens/George: 16071
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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