IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225258 accession number: P.14669-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). Brougham (Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, 1778-1868; Lord Chancellor from 24 November 1830- 9 July 1834), on the left, wears a judge's wig and band combined with the bodice and skirt of a broom girl, a broom between his legs, and turned coyly away from Lord Grey (Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, 1764-1845; Prime Minister from 22 November 1830 to 16 July 1834). Lord Grey holds up a chancellor's wig in his left hand (printed speech inside a bubble above): 'Can you refuse so fine a head dress? ...'. Brougham's head is inclined towards Grey with a crafty expression (printed speech inside a bubble above): 'Ah! don't ask me? - you know / I said _twice over_ I wouldn't / take anything'. The artist's initials in monogram at lower left: 'HB'. Title printed below the border: 'THE COQUET / or / A Political Courtship'. The publisher's details printed below: 'Published by Thos McLean, 26 Haymarket - / Novr 23rd 1830.'. Handwritten in graphite at upper right: '92'. See 16339,_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, pp. 371-2. A number '[92]' printed in square brackets in the right-hand margin on p. 371 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/225258 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