The Political Death and Burial of the Departed Whigs.
C. Bennett, Printer, 34, Vere Street, Clare Market [n.d., 1834].
Letterpress broadside. Sheet 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Mounted on album paper, glue stains in corners, small tears, ink mss. date 'Nov.r 1834'.
A satire of the recent change of government from Whig (under William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, the last Prime Minister to be sacked by a monarch) to Tory (under Robert Peel), taking the form of a service at a funeral, with a speaker/minister and respondant, praying to William IV for deliverance. The satire is not partisan: the Speaker says 'although we despise the Whigs, yet do we utterly detest the Tories'.
[Ref: 57601] £130.00
Letterpress broadside. Sheet 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Mounted on album paper, glue stains in corners, small tears, ink mss. date 'Nov.r 1834'.
A satire of the recent change of government from Whig (under William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, the last Prime Minister to be sacked by a monarch) to Tory (under Robert Peel), taking the form of a service at a funeral, with a speaker/minister and respondant, praying to William IV for deliverance. The satire is not partisan: the Speaker says 'although we despise the Whigs, yet do we utterly detest the Tories'.
[Ref: 57601] £130.00