Sir Robert Peel holds a candle-snuffer inscribed "Conservatism" about to extinguish a low candle inscribed "Whiggery". Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1841.

  • Doyle, John, 1797-1868.
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4 October 1841
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37117i
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view Sir Robert Peel holds a candle-snuffer inscribed "Conservatism" about to extinguish a low candle inscribed "Whiggery". Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1841.

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Sir Robert Peel holds a candle-snuffer inscribed "Conservatism" about to extinguish a low candle inscribed "Whiggery". Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1841. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

This image refers to the downfall of the Whig administration and appointment to office of the Tories

Publication/Creation

[London] (26 Haymarket) : T. McLean, 4 October 1841 ([London] : A. Ducôte's General Lith[ographi]c Estab[lishmen]t)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 30 x 25 cm + album.

Lettering

A new reading to the political phrase finality! HB Extensive dialogue within the print

References note

An illustrated key to the political sketches of H.B., from no. 601, to no. 800, London 1844, pp. 114-115

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Wellcome Collection 37117i

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