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A Sketch in Buckingham Gardens. _ Dedicated to the Royal Humane Societies.

A Sketch in Buckingham Gardens. _ Dedicated to the Royal Humane Societies.Political Hits No. 8.

[John Doyle?] Printed by W. Kohler 22 Denmark Street Soho.
London; W. Spooner, 377 Strand [n.d., c.1842].
Lithograph. Sheet 295 x 390mm (11½ x 15¼"). Trimmed close to printed border, laid on album paper.
A panicking Prince Albert has fallen through the ice on the pond in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. Queen Victoria is attempting to pull him out, aided by a laughing lady-in-waiting ('Lady M_'), who says 'who would have thought His Royal Highness such a coward?'. In 1842 the Royal Humane Society presented Albert with a 'Life-Ladder', a ladder with wheels on one end, to be used in the event of accident at the royal skating parties on Virginia Water.
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