The antique statue of Laocoön: Lord Melbourne as Laocoön, Lord John Russell and Thomas Spring-Rice as the two sons, entwined by two serpents with the faces of Lords Brougham and Lyndhurst. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.

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1838
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36798i
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The antique statue of Laocoön: Lord Melbourne as Laocoön, Lord John Russell and Thomas Spring-Rice as the two sons, entwined by two serpents with the faces of Lords Brougham and Lyndhurst. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Thomas Spring-Rice was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Melbourne's administration, and Lord John Russell was Home Secretary. Lord Brougham persistently attacked Melbourne's government. "Viscount Melbourne vociferously complained about the bitterness of Lyndhurst's invective" (Oxford dictionary of national biography)

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London (26 Haymarket) : T. McLean, 1838.
[London] 70 Saint Martin's lane : A. Ducôte's lithography

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 34.4 x 25 cm + album.

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Laocoon, a classical subject! HB Extensive dialogue within the print. A. Ducôte's lithography.

References note

An illustrated key to the political sketches of H.B., London 1841, pp. 368-369

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Wellcome Collection 36798i

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