'Going to the Fair with it!...', 1837. Creator: John Doyle. # 2751955

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'Going to the Fair with it!. A Cant Phrase for doing any thing in an extravagant way - Known it is presumed to most persons', 1837. A boy balances on a pole labelled 'Irish Corporation Bill - Majority 80'. A fellow perfomer swallows a sword labelled 'Repeal'. On the ground are written the words 'Irish Tithes' and 'Appropriation Clause'. Satirical cartoon on British-Irish politics by 'H.B.' (John Doyle). [Thomas McLean, London, 1837]

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People Information

Creator

John Doyle, attributed to: British; Irish: Artist, caricaturist, painter

Subject

John Arthur Roebuck: British: Politician, MP
Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby: British: Peer, politician
John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton de Gyfford: British: Politician
Duke of Wellington: British, Irish: General, commander of the British army, statesman, prime minister
Lord John Russell: British: Politician, First Lord of the Treasury, prime minister
Sir Robert Peel: British: Politician, Prime Minister
Daniel O'Connell: Irish: Statesman, politician
Henry Peter Brougham: British: Lord Chancellor, politician, social scientist, educationist