Sir Charles Wetherell collapsed in a chair surrounded by both smiling and weeping fellow politicians; referring to reactions to the Plan of Reform which disenfranchised sixty boroughs. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1831.

  • Doyle, John, 1797-1868.
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7 March 1831
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view Sir Charles Wetherell collapsed in a chair surrounded by both smiling and weeping fellow politicians; referring to reactions to the Plan of Reform which disenfranchised sixty boroughs. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1831.

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Sir Charles Wetherell collapsed in a chair surrounded by both smiling and weeping fellow politicians; referring to reactions to the Plan of Reform which disenfranchised sixty boroughs. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1831. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Wetherell's constituency, Boroughbridge, was included in the sixty to be disfranchised. He says: "All over my friends! just in time to hear my last speech and dying words! But don't look so grave about it, I assure you we treat the matter in our house as if it was an excellent joke to be sent out of the world with a dose of Russell's purge! is so droll; & then, we are to have such a merry funeral." Eldon mournfully says: "Poor Boroughbridge! how is it with you?", the Duke of Cumberland says: "Facetious to the last! - It is quite effecting!". On the table is a medicine bottle labelled: "Russell's purge"

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London (26 Haymarket) : Thos. McLean, 7 March 1831 ([London] 23 Leicester Sqre. : C. Motte)

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; border 27 x 34.2 cm.

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The last of the Boroughbridges. HB.

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British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. XI, London 1954, no. 16602

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Wellcome Collection 12229i

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