The Duke of Wellington stands at the top of a ladder tearing down a poster while Lord Lyndhurst paints a message "bill stickers beware" with Lord Morpeth carrying a basket of bills and Lord John Russell looking on. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.

  • Doyle, John, 1797-1868.
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26 July 1836
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36540i
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The municiple corporations (Ireland) bill was fiercely opposed by the Lords. Bills relating to Irish tithes and Irish corporations were passed in the House of Commons but opposed and ammended in the Lords

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London (26 Haymarket) : T. McLean, 26 July 1836 (70 Saint Martin's lane : A. Ducôte's lithography)

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 26 x 34.3 cm + album.

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A gentle warning! HB The bills are inscribed "Irish corporation", "bill...O'Connell"

References note

An illustrated key to the political sketches of H.B., London 1841, p.303

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Wellcome Collection 36540i

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