A giant holding a crozier with a cap of liberty points menacingly to Daniel O'Connell who stands on the brink of a precipice. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1843.

  • Doyle, John, 1797-1868.
Date:
30 June 1843
Reference:
37162i
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The cap has three labels attached inscribed "repeal", "separation" and "anarchy". Daniel O'Connell cries: "Hur-hur-rah for repeal". The figure is adapted from Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and represents Daniel O'Connell's attempts at the repeal of the Union

Publication/Creation

[London] (26 Haymarket) : T. McLean, 30 June 1843 ([London] : A. Ducôte's General Lith[ographi]c Estab[lishmen]t)

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 25.3 x 35.6 cm + album.

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A new illustration of the story of Frankenstein! HB Extensive dialogue within the print

References note

An illustrated key to the political sketches of H.B., from no. 601, to no. 800, London 1844, p.174

Reference

Wellcome Collection 37162i

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