An elephant running wild with Lord Auckland in its trunk. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1843.

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Date:
February 1843
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37124i
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An elephant running wild with Lord Auckland in its trunk. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1843. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The elephant represents the Governor-General of India, Lord Ellenborough, who was strongly criticized for his conduct and for a proclamation in which he made accusations against his predecessor Lord Auckland. The driver is the Duke of Wellington. Sir Robert Peel and Lord Stanley are on the elephant's back. Following behind are Sir John Cam Hobhouse and Lord John Russell

A parody of a painting by Johann Zoffany, showing an embassy of the Nawab of Oudh (Awadh), led by his minister Haider Beg Khan, to Lord Cornwallis, the then Governor General of India, in 1788

Publication/Creation

[London] (26 Haymarket) : T. McLean, February 1843.
[London] : A. Ducôte's General Lith[ographi]c Estab[lishmen]t

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 26 x 36 cm + album.

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Alarming situation! In India from an old tame elephant running wild!!! HB Extensive dialogue within the print. A. Ducôte's General Lith[ographi]c Estab[lishmen]t.

References note

An illustrated key to the political sketches of H.B., from no. 601, to no. 800, London 1844, p. 165

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Wellcome Collection 37124i

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English

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