"A fight between Lyndhurst and Peel with Ellenborough and Wellington as bottle-holders. Lyndhurst (left), in Chancellor's wig and gown, staggers back, arms flung out, at a punch on the nose from Peel who lunges forward, ruthlessly pugnacious. Ellenborough, dressed and behaving as a dandy (in tight-waisted blue coat and white bell-shaped trousers), holding a tubular eau-de-cologne bottle, emblem of the dandy, cf. BM Satires No. 13031, registers alarm, exclaiming, 'Oh! Oh! my dear Lud, take care--he's a terrible hitter--or he'll have your Ludship's dear head in Chancery.' Wellington (right), in uniform with sword, gauntlets, and heavily spurred cavalry boots, says: 'That's it Bob; serve him out--He won't ride rusty after this I know.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., A. Sharpshooter tentatively identified as John Phillips. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Watermark: J. Whatman 1928., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 178.
Publisher:
Pub. by J. Field, 65 Regents Quadrant
Subject (Name):
Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Daggers & swords, Dandies, British, Judges, Military uniforms, and Wigs
Title from caption below image., A. Sharpshooter tentatively identified as John Phillips. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image., Print signed using an imitation of William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Printmaker tentatively identified as Sharpshooter = John Phillips. See British Museum catalogue., Imprint continues: ... (sole publisher of P. Prys caricatures)., and Watermark: 1829.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1829 by S. Gans, 15 Southampton Street, Strand ...
Title from text in center of design., Print signed using an imitation of William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Printmaker tentatively identified as Sharpshooter = John Phillips. See British Museum catalogue., Imprint continues: ... (sole publisher of Paul Prys caricatures)., Design divided into upper and lower halves by the title, imprint, artist's device, and inscriptions., Text alongside artist's device: The park last evening presented the most frightful, at the same time a most ludicrous, scene owing to the atmosphere's sudden change of temperature ..., and Text above image: A peep at Hop-tons. The sleeves are "all in all we shall ne'er look upon their like again."
Publisher:
Published August 1829 by S. Gans, 15 Southampton Street, Strand ...
