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British politicians as acrobats at a fair: performances by Lord John Russell balancing on a pole inscribed "Irish corporation billl...", Daniel O'Connell swallowing a sword inscribed "Repeal", and Thomas Spring-Rice balancing on his chin an object with a picture of a church, watched by political onlookers. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1837.

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.

A letter to the Rt. Hon. Thomas Spring Rice, M.P. Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer ... containing a plan for the better management of the British Museum / [John Millard].

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Monteagle of Brandon, Thomas Spring-Rice, Baron, 1790-1866

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A letter to the Rt. Hon. Thomas Spring Rice, M.P. Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer ... containing a plan for the better management of the British Museum / [John Millard].