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Catholic emancipation
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A gouty patient having his pulse taken by a doctor; representing George IV's opposition to Catholic emancipation, and Wellington's support of it. Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1829.
Jones, Thomas Howell, active 1828.Date: April 1829Reference: 12223i- Pictures
A group of men from the Ministry sit drinking around a table in celebration of the Catholic emancipation bill as the ghost of Charles James Fox appears on the right and Sheridan falls off his chair to vomit over a copy of a petition. Engraving by Adolphe after W. O'Keefe, 1807.
O'Keefe, W., active 1794-1805.Date: June 1 1807Reference: 591325i
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Thomas Dromgoole speaking at a meeting of the Catholic Board in Dublin; represented as Doctor Drum "letting the cat out of the bag". Coloured etching, 1813.
Date: 1813Reference: 12207i
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Wellington and Peel, in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching, 1829.
Date: [1829]Reference: 662572i- Pictures
A violent storm at sea in which a battered raft is dashed against a rocky promontory inscribed 'Law-liberty-British Constitution'. Lithograph, 1827.
Date: [ca. March 1827]Reference: 603170i