Ducote Alfred Collection

The Sleeping Beauty or Tellers Catching a Stray Vote, 1833. Creator: John Doyle
The Sleeping Beauty or Tellers Catching a Stray Vote, 1833. John William Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough; Sir George de Lacy Evans; Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon

Military Rough-Riders Breaking an Unruly Animal, 1833. Creator: John Doyle
Military Rough-Riders Breaking an Unruly Animal, 1833. Chief Secretary for Ireland Edward Stanley, Prime Minister Charles Grey

A Man wot has got a good understanding although A Great Calf!, 1833. Creator: John Doyle
A Man wot has got a good understanding although A Great Calf!, 1833. Portrait of Irish politician Sir Frederick Shaw, 3rd Baronet (1799-1876), member of parliament for Dundalk

Dispersion of the Thimble-Rig, 1834. Creator: John Doyle
Dispersion of the Thimble-Rig, 1834. British politicians: Agad, here is the Police ; I shan t stir a peg ; I ll be off ; Then so shall I

Going to the Fair with it!... 1837. Creator: John Doyle
Going to the Fair with it!. A Cant Phrase for doing any thing in an extravagant way - Known it is presumed to most persons, 1837

The Cats Paw, 1832. Creator: John Doyle
The Cats Paw, 1832. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, French ambassador to the United Kingdom, grapples with British prime minister Lord Palmerston, depicted as a cat

An original sketch from which it is presumed Hogarth took his... picture The Cock Pit, 1837
An original sketch from which it is presumed Hogarth took his well-known picture The Cock Pit, 1837. Politicians at a cock fight - the word Ireland is written in the arena

The Reconciliation. An Affecting Scene, 1834. Creator: John Doyle
The Reconciliation. An Affecting Scene, 1834. Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby; Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue; Sir James Robert George Graham; Edward John Littleton

The New Pasha of Egypt. Not by Horace Vernet, 1840. Creator: John Doyle
The New Pasha of Egypt. Not by Horace Vernet, 1840. A parody on Vernets lithograph; Lord Palmerston, dressed in oriental costume and riding on horseback, in the character of Pasha Mohamed Ali

The Modern Antaeus, 1833. Creator: John Doyle
The Modern Antaeus, 1833. John Wilson Croker; Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey as Antaeus from Greek mythology, standing on the word Reform ; Henry Pelham Pelham-Clinton

Conferring the Honorary Degree of D. C. L. Upon The Russian Embassador, 1834. Creator: John Doyle
Conferring the Honorary Degree of D.C.L. Upon The Russian Embassador, omitted by mistake in the ceremonies of the 10th June at Oxford, 1834

March of Reform, 1833. Creator: John Doyle
March of Reform, 1833. William Cobbett; John Wilson Croker; John Gully; Joseph Pease; Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, 1st Baron St Leonards; Horace Twiss; Sir Charles Wetherell; Francis Williams

The Vaux and the Grapes, 1835. Creator: John Doyle
The Vaux and the Grapes. 1835. Lord Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux portrayed as a fox. The play on words in the title connects his name with one of Aesops fables

Seconding a Motion or The Party of the Movement, 1833. Creator: John Doyle
Seconding a Motion or The Party of the Movement. 1833. John William Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough; Charles Manners Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury; Edward Smith Stanley

The Nursery, 1833. Creator: John Doyle
The Nursery, 1833. John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton de Gyfford; Sir Francis Burdett; William Cobbett; John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer. British politians depicted as crying children

Drill Extraordinary, or University Dicipline, 1834. Creator: John Doyle
Drill Extraordinary, or University Dicipline, 1834. Prime Minister Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington holds the ceremonial mace

A Select Specimen of the BLACK Style, 1833. Creator: John Doyle
A Select Specimen of the BLACK Style, 1833. Original in Bronze may be seen at_. Lord Chancellor Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, as a sculpture

An Interesting Group, 1833. Creator: John Doyle
An Interesting Group, 1833. The teenage Maria II of Portugal; King William IV of Britain; Marias supporter Joao Jose Xavier, Conde de Carvalhal. Satirical cartoon by H.B. (John Doyle)

Hounds on a Wrong Scent, or the Red Herring Drag illustrated, 1836. Creator: John Doyle
Hounds on a Wrong Scent, or the Red Herring Drag illustrated, 1836. The Duke of Wellington drags a herring with the head of John Singleton Copley in a comment on British politics

Narcissus (by particular desire. ), 1833. Creator: John Doyle
Narcissus (by particular desire.), 1833. A water spout with the face of prime minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne; the mythological figure of Narcissus with the face of William Howard

A Clear Case of Political Petty Larceny, 1833. Creator: John Doyle
A Clear Case of Political Petty Larceny, 1833. Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, makes off with a bundle labelled The art of answering ones self. Speech on West India, Slavery

H / Cannibalism, or An Irish Stew, 1833. Creator: John Doyle
H/Cannibalism, or An Irish Stew. 1833. Lord Chancellor of Ireland William Conyngham Plunket eats a stew which appears to contain dead bodies. Satirical cartoon on British politics by H.B

You May Know a Man by the Company He Keeps, 1833. Creator: John Doyle
" You May Know a Man by the Company He Keeps", 1833. Burdett (Sir Francis Burdett), Cobbett (William Cobbett), Althorp (John Charles Spencer)

A Sharp between Two Flats, Gloucester-Wellington-Cumberland, 1833. Creator: John Doyle
A Sharp between Two Flats, Gloucester-Wellington-Cumberland, 1833. William Frederick, 2nd Duke of Gloucester (1776-1834); Prime Minister Arthur Wellesley

Vacation Amusements. (No 1. ) Pheasant Shooting!, 1840. Creator: John Doyle
Vacation Amusements. (No 1.) Pheasant Shooting!, 1840. Prime Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (right) holds a gun labelled Mistress of the Robes and says What a noble pair of birds

March of Reform - Master of Ceremonies in the H. of Commons Improved Manners... 1837
March of Reform - Master of Ceremonies in the H. of Commons Improved Manners (Much to be desired.) Arising Therefrom, 1837

An Extraordinary Likeness, 1837. Creator: John Doyle
An Extraordinary Likeness, 1837. Henry Hardinge says of his picture of Sir Hussey Vivian: How do you like my portrait, don t you think I have hit off his attitude

Gratitude, 1834. Creator: John Doyle
Gratitude, 1834. Lord Chancellor Henry Brougham thinks: (He offered me the Attorney Generalship, I must now do something for him.) He then says to former prime minister Charles Grey

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