Repulsed but not Discouraged HB Sketches No. 63
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). Wellington and Peel (viewed from behind) try to prevent a bearded figure characterised as a Jew from entering a doorway at the far right. The bearded figure says (printed speech inside a speech bubble at upper centre): 'Pray let me in! I am sure I shall / Behave myself, as well as some, / whom you have admitted'. Peel (Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, 1788-1850; Prime Minister, 1834–1835 and 1841–1846) says (printed in a speech bubble above his head): 'I cannot let you / pass, if I admit you / the respectable Gent / -leman in the broad / brim and all the / rest, will expect to / get in.'. Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington,1769-1852; Prime Minister from 1828 to 1830) adds (in a speech bubble to his right): 'He must not be let in / yet P-l, but if we dont / take care the fellow will / slip in, in spite of us'. Two figures at the centre, O'Connell (Daniel O'Connell, 1775-1847) and Brougham (Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, 1778-1868; Lord Chancellor, 1830-34), wearing barrister's wig and gown, comment on the scene: O'Connell: 'Agitate friend Moses / Agitate! that's the way / I got in'; Brougham: 'You exclude the Jew / and Quaker while the / Atheist, who laughs at / your oaths, obtain's [sic] / Admission.'. Title printed below the border: 'REPULSED but not DISCOURAGED.'. The publisher's details printed below: 'Published by Thos McLean. 26, Haymarket, May,24.1830.'. Handwritten in graphite at upper right: '63'. The impression is weak. See 16118,_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, pp. 290-91. A number '[63]' printed in square brackets in the right-hand margin on p. 290 relates to the handwritten number at upper right, both referencing the sequence of John Doyle's Political Sketches series.
Given by Mrs J.E. Foster, 1895
Method of acquisition: Given (1895) by Foster, J.E., Mrs
19th Century
Production date:
AD 1830-05-24
Height 275mm x width 374mm
Accession number: P.14661-R
Primary reference Number: 225250
Stephens/George: 16118
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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