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After John Doyle (1797-1868)
Sketches and Caricatures: The Peeliades in attempting to give their father eternal life, 'BLEED HIM TO DEATH' published Oct 1842
Lithograph | RCIN 811282.k
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A lithograph cartoon of John Bull, as Pelias, lying sick in bed as blood let from his arm pours into a large bowl marked 'Treasury'. Henry Goulburn, dressed as a woman, kneels attending to the bowl. Robert Peel, as Medea, stands in the centre and Sir James Graham and Lord Stanley, also in female guise, watch from the left. See British Museum inv. no. 1868,0808.12072.
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HB Sketches No. 741
