King William IV sits with knife and fork at the ready before a pie containing blackbirds served to him by Lord Melbourne. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.

  • Doyle, John, 1797-1868.
Date:
28 December 1836
Reference:
36628i
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view King William IV sits with knife and fork at the ready before a pie containing blackbirds served to him by Lord Melbourne. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.

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King William IV sits with knife and fork at the ready before a pie containing blackbirds served to him by Lord Melbourne. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The two other servants are Lords Mulgrave and Morpeth

Publication/Creation

London (26 Haymarket) : T. McLean, 28 December 1836 (70 Saint Martin's lane : A. Ducôte's lithography)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 22.5 x 30.6 cm + album.

Lettering

Sing a song of six pence a bag full of rye, four and twenty black birds baked in a pie, when the pie was opened, the birds began to sing, was not this a pretty dish to set before a king. Nursery rhymes no. 1.HB The blackbirds sing "justice for Scotland" and "no tithes!"

References note

An illustrated key to the political sketches of H.B., London 1841, p.312

Reference

Wellcome Collection 36628i

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