A fancy sketch shewing a select specimen of the cross-palpable / [graphic]

"Two men engaged in a fist-fight in centre: the one to left (Daniel O'Connell) punching the other (Lord Althorp); to left, a man holding up a bottle in his left hand (Richard Lalor Shiel); a man standing to far left watching in excitement (Edward Southwell Ruthven); behind the loser two of his supporters (Thomas Spring Rice, Edward John Littleton); to far right, John Bull holding a watch; behind him partial profile of a man calling for the loser to be taken away (Lord Brougham); three men standing in centre background, engaged in conversation (Thomas Langlois Lefroy, Sir Robert Peel, Sir Robert Harry Inglis); more spectators watching from the background."--British Museum online catalogue