John Bull stares with interest as a bearded magician pulls aside a curtain to show a mirror in which the princess Victoria wearing a crown is being pulled by the arms. Coloured lithograph by John Doyle, 1830.

  • Doyle, John, 1797-1868.
Date:
June 8 1830
Reference:
603499i
Part of:
HB sketches
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About this work

Description

The two men on the left of Victoria are the Duke of Cumberland and the Duke of Wellington who holds Cumberland's waist. They try to drag Victoria from her mother on the right and Prince Leopold. The Duke of Cumberland was seen as the wicked uncle who was next in line for the throne after Victoria

Publication/Creation

[London] (26 Haymarket) : T. McLean, June 8 1830.

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 27.6 x 36.6 cm.

Lettering

The magic mirror or a peep into futurity. HB

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. XI, London 1954, no. 16136

Reference

Wellcome Collection 603499i

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