Sir Robert Peel holds a candle-snuffer inscribed "Conservatism" about to extinguish a low candle inscribed "Whiggery". Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1841.

Selected images from this work

This image refers to the downfall of the Whig administration and appointment to office of the Tories

[London] (26 Haymarket) : T. McLean, 4 October 1841 ([London] : A. Ducôte's General Lith[ographi]c Estab[lishmen]t)

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 30 x 25 cm + album.

A new reading to the political phrase finality! HB Extensive dialogue within the print

An illustrated key to the political sketches of H.B., from no. 601, to no. 800, London 1844, pp. 114-115

Wellcome Collection 37117i

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