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.

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

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

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!"

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

Wellcome Collection 36628i