IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225307 accession number: P.14718-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). At the centre is Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury: 'How does my new wig & / Gown become me?'. Wellington, standing to the left: 'Believe me not so well as your old!'. Eldon sits in a chair on the right: 'Ah you are all alike! - I see none of you / can resist the temptation of office ...'. Signed with monogram at lower left: 'HB'. Title printed below the border: 'A PEEP BEHIND THE SCENES PREPARATORY TO / THE _RE_APPEARANCE OF A DISTINGUISHED PERMORMER UPON A POPULAR STAGE / AFTER, HAVING LIKE OTHER GREAT ACTORS / TAKEN HIS FA_REWELL BENE_FIT.'. The publisher's details printed below left: 'Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket, Jan. 30th. 1833.'. An eye-shaped blind stamp at lower left: 'SUBSCRIBERS / COPY / HB [at the centre]'. Printer's details below the border at lower right: 'A. Ducôté's Lithogy. 70, St Martins Lane'. Printed above the border at upper right: 'HB Sketches No. 239'. 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/225307 TECHNIQUES ---------- lithography CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1833 - 1833 creation date earliest: 1833 creation date latest: 1833 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Doyle, John (HB) maker: McLean, Thomas