IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225287 accession number: P.14698-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). Below the title: '"The Noble Lords who opened the flood gates of insurrection would be swept away by the torrent, except perhaps, his Noble and / Learned Friend on the woolsack, who might be enabled, by his peculiar dexterity, elasticity, and Vigour, to float, for a / time upon the tide, and play his gambols upon its surface". Brougham, in his wig and gown floats on a tide of floodwater, an uprooted tree labelled 'Liberty' to his right. The King's crown and apparently his submerged body in the foreground. Brougham holds the mace in his left hand, to which is tied the Purse of the Great Seal, acting as rudder and sail. Signed with monogram at lower left: 'HB'. Title printed below the border: 'THE LAST OF HIS RACE'. The publisher's details printed below left: 'Published by Thos McLean, 26, Haymarket, Octr. 20th 1831.'. A small, circular blind stamp at lower left: 'THOs. MCLEAN'. Printer's details below the border at lower right: 'C. Motte's Lithogy. 70 St. Martins Lane'. Printed above the border at upper right: 'HB Sketches No 162.'. See 16799,_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, p.531. 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/225287 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