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Robert Seymour
1798-1836
Symptoms of a long debate : "Mr. Spaker [sic], I shall now conclude, and I hope I have awakened the House to a sense of the wrongs of six millions of the finest pisantry in the universe!"
wood engraving with letterpress
image: 85 x 83 mm; sheet: 118 x 131 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2220
Published:
[London] : [George Goodger?], [1831?]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Title from caption.
The same image appeard in "The gallery of 140 comicalities" (London: Goodger, 1831), page 3.
Summary:
View of a meeting of Parliament (?), wherein half the participants are fast asleep.
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