IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225264 accession number: P.14675-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). The bear (Russia) climbs a pole (Poland) in a bear-pit towards a human head with spikes, the mouth holding a bun marked: 'Liberty'. A figure in military uniform wearing a plumed hat stands beside a man wearing a top hat on the left who incites the bear with a rod marked 'Provocative'. Another figure in military uniform wearing a plumed hat and moustache stands above the pit to the right. The artist's initials in monogram at lower left: 'HB'. Title printed below the border: 'THE GREAT POLAR BEAR / A Graphic Simile.'. The publisher's details printed below: 'Published by Thos McLean, 26, Haymarket, Jany. 12th, 1831.'. Printed at upper right: 'No. 104'. See 16549,_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, p. 432. 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/225264 TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1831 - 1831 creation date earliest: 1831 creation date latest: 1831 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Doyle, John (HB) maker: McLean, Thomas