Published by London: Thomas McLean, 1838
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible Signed
Condition: Good. Original B&W lithograph on wove paper. 17 × 11.5 inches. Good. Heavy foxing across the sheet; light overall toning. Signed in the plate with the initials HB. This 1838 cartoon is a complex and pointed political satire. It anthropomorphizes political institutions and legislation, portraying them as patients suffering from a terminal illness.John Doyle, known by the pen name H. B., was an Irish political cartoonist, caricaturist, painter and lithographer.