Collection object
2005.0054
H. 27.9 W. 37.5
Print. Political cartoon; No. 477, Going to the Fair with it; A cant Phrase for doing any thing in an extravagant way- Known it is presumed to most persons. HB, 30th March 1837. HB monogram at bottom left. A. Ducotes lithographer, 70 St. Martin's Lane, London, T. McLean publisher, 26 Haymarket below frame. Image shows three entertainers, a sword swallower seated on ground, with sword of repeal in mouth and Irish tithes and Appropriation Clause; a man balancing on a pole marked Irish Corporation Bill Majority 80 and a man balancing a box with a church on it on a stick on his chin. Behind them is a crowd of top-hatted onlookers passing comments to each other. Persons; Lord Ebrington, Sir William Molesworth, Mr C. Buller, Mr Hume, Lord Brougham, Mr Roebuck, Sir J.C. Hobhouse, Sir F Burdett, John Bull, Duke of Wellington, Sir R Peel, O'Connell, Lord John Russell and Spring Rice, (for identifications see separate sheet in correspondence file).