Seated at a card table are Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with Lord Normanby and Daniel O'Connell at the ends. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1839.
- Doyle, John, 1797-1868.
- Date:
- 10 December 1839
- Reference:
- 36948i
- Part of:
- HB sketches : 6
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Description
Victoria and Albert are too absorbed in matrimony to take much notice of the game, just as Normanby is absorbed in intrigue. Daniel O'Connell is confident that the game is his. The Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel standing do not play and are impatient
Publication/Creation
London (26 Haymarket) : T. McLean, 10 December 1839 (70 Saint Martin's lane : A. Ducôte's lithography)
Physical description
1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 25.6 x 32.9cm + album.
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The game of Pope-Joan! as lately played at court. HB
Extensive dialogue within the print
References note
An illustrated key to the political sketches of H.B., no. 601, to no. 800, London 1844, p.22
Reference
Wellcome Collection 36948i
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