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Receiving The Fatal News!: P.14780-R

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Receiving The Fatal News!
HB Sketches No. 356

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Doyle, John (HB)
Publisher: McLean, Thomas

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Description

Lithograph (uncoloured) on white wove paper. Inlaid within a frame of buff wove paper (approx. height 360mm x width 515mm). A group of men sitting around a table all look towards a man (Lord Melbourne) entering from the right who says to them: "We are all out! - regularly / kicked out!". The other men are, from left to right: Lord Brougham, Lord Russell, Lord Holland, Lord Duncannon, Thomas String Rice, Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Lord Auckland, Lord Palmerston and Charles Grant. Unsigned. Title printed below the border: 'RECEIVING THE FATAL NEWS!'. The publisher's details printed below the border to the left: 'Published by T. McLean, 26, Haymarket, Decr. 1st. 1834.'. Printer's details below the border to the right: 'Ducôté & Stephen's Lithogy, 70, St. Martins Lane'. Printed above the border at upper right: 'HB Sketches No. 356'. P.14781-R is another impression.

Legal notes

Given by Mrs J.E. Foster, 1895

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1895) by Foster, J.E., Mrs

Dating

19th Century
Production date: AD 1834-12-01

Note

Height 271mm x width 360mm

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14780-R
Primary reference Number: 225369
McLean: 356
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Audit data

Created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 Updated: Thursday 6 January 2022 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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