An elephant running wild with Lord Auckland in its trunk. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1843.

The elephant represents the Governor-General of India, Lord Ellenborough, who was strongly criticized for his conduct and for a proclamation in which he made accusations against his predecessor Lord Auckland. The driver is the Duke of Wellington. Sir Robert Peel and Lord Stanley are on the elephant's back. Following behind are Sir John Cam Hobhouse and Lord John Russell

A parody of a painting by Johann Zoffany, showing an embassy of the Nawab of Oudh (Awadh), led by his minister Haider Beg Khan, to Lord Cornwallis, the then Governor General of India, in 1788

[London] (26 Haymarket) : T. McLean, February 1843 ([London] : A. Ducôte's General Lith[ographi]c Estab[lishmen]t)

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 26 x 36 cm + album.

Alarming situation! In India from an old tame elephant running wild!!! HB Extensive dialogue within the print

An illustrated key to the political sketches of H.B., from no. 601, to no. 800, London 1844, p. 165

Wellcome Collection 37124i