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Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868, Irish, The State Wagon in Difficulties, 1847
- Title:
- The State Wagon in Difficulties
- Additional Title(s):
- The State Waggon in Difficulties
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1847
- Materials & Techniques:
- Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 x 17 9/16 inches (30.5 x 44.6 cm), Image: 10 1/8 x 14 7/8 inches (25.7 x 37.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Marked with imprint, lower left: "Subscriber's Copy, HB"
Lettered, upper right, "HB Sketches No 889"; lower left inside image: "HB"; lower left below image: "Published Novr 10th 1847 by T McLean 26 Haymarket"; lower center: "THE STATE WAGGON IN DIFFICULTIES. | 1st Waggoner. ~ 'Come, there's no use in trying to carry it any longer; ~we shall be soon all at a dead lock.' | 2nd Waggoner. ~ 'Suppose I just throw out enough of it to enable us to get over the worst of the road, ~We can | afterards picl up the pieces'"; lower right: "Printed at 70 St Martin's Lane"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.14665
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- armed forces | army | bales | banks | cargo | carts | charters | civil liberties | debt | famine | genre subject | harnesses | hats | horses (animals) | Irish | money | navy | peasants | political | railway | satire | satirical | sketches | wagons | wheels | whips
- Associated People:
- Wood, Sir Charles, 1st Viscount Halifax (1800 - 1885), politician/statesman
Russell, Lord John, 1st Earl Russell of Kingston Russell (1792–1878), politician/statesman - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:49380
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