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John Doyle HB (1797-1868)

Plate 247 Gulliver in the Toils of the Lilliputians
Period -1799
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Description

Field Marshal Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768-1854), Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham & Vaux, Lord Chancellor (1778-1868) - in Bearskin with sword & Mace; Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1868), thrice Whig/Conservative Prime Minister between 1852-68; Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1765-1845), Whig Prime Minister 1830-34 & Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847), Irish Politician, MP for Dublin City & Cork County (Gulliver) “Political Sketches by HB” Vol III 11/03/1833

The artist

Dublin-born cartoonist and caricaturist, Doyle is considered a founder of the school of British satirists. Kinder and gentler than Hogarth, Rowlandson or Gilray, from the mid 1820s he regularly satirised prominent people and events of the day

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