IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225248 accession number: P.14659-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). An interior scene in the bedroom of the Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, 1769-1852; Prime Minister from 1828 to 1830) who lies in bed with a nightcap on his head, propped up on his right elbow and holding a document in his right hand. He looks out at the moon shining into the room from the undraped window opposite. Printed speech at upper centre: '"How many thousands of my fellow subject's [sic] / "Are at this hour Asleep"! To satisfy / The hopes and expectations of them all / A thankless task! Beyond a mortals pow'r / Why should I spend these weary hours of night / In meditative thoughts and watchful cares? / 'Tis for my country's good. Enough - Enough!'. The artist's initials in monogram at lower right: 'HB'. Title printed below the border: 'A NOCTURAL REVERIE.'. The publisher's details printed below: 'Published March 20 1830 by THOMAS McLEAN 26 Haymarket'. Handwritten in graphite at upper right: '57'. See 16072,_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, pp. 277. A number '[57]' 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. 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/225248 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