Queen Victoria in a theatre watching a performance: Van Amburgh holding a whip and various animals - a lion, hyena, fox and sheep with the heads of Daniel O'Connell, Lord Durham, Lord Brougham and Lord Melbourne respectively. Lithograph by Philo H.B., 1839.

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Date:
1839
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37231i
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view Queen Victoria in a theatre watching a performance: Van Amburgh holding a whip and various animals - a lion, hyena, fox and sheep with the heads of Daniel O'Connell, Lord Durham, Lord Brougham and Lord Melbourne respectively. Lithograph by Philo H.B., 1839.

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Queen Victoria in a theatre watching a performance: Van Amburgh holding a whip and various animals - a lion, hyena, fox and sheep with the heads of Daniel O'Connell, Lord Durham, Lord Brougham and Lord Melbourne respectively. Lithograph by Philo H.B., 1839. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Also watching from the stalls are Prince Albert on the left and the Duke of Wellington on the right. Compare Wellcome Library no. 36866i (a print by HB of a similar subject)

Publication/Creation

[London] (Picadilly) : Messrs Fores, 1839.

Physical description

1 print : lithograph ; image 24 x 36.1 cm + album

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Scene at Drury Lane Theatre, by command Extensive dialogue within the print

Reference

Wellcome Collection 37231i

Creator/production credits

Philo HB was one of the imitators of HB (John Doyle). Doyle's publisher Thomas McLean issued a warning to subscribers that "spurious copies, and imitations of style and signature, much inferior to the celebrated original" had been issued

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