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"A Will O'The Wisp"   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: John Doyle (HB)

Published by: Thomas McLean
Printed by: Charles Motte
Title
"A Will O'The Wisp"
Description
English: No. 150. Brougham, as a will-o'-the-wisp, is followed or watched by four peers. He capers to the left, on long spidery legs; his body is a cylindrical lantern topped by his bewigged head. He is irradiated and looks slyly back from the corner of his eye. Lord Durham, stepping boldly forward, says: 'Let us take this Star for our guide, and Proceed boldly'. Lord Grey grips Durham's left arm, and steps gingerly from dry ground, saying, 'I fear we are getting bogged'. On the extreme right Lord Carnarvon grasps the coat-tails of Lord Londonderry, saying, 'Stop Man! T'is a "Will O' the Wisp" and will only lead you astray.—I tell you, you will only expose yourself to——' Londonderry, who is on Grey's right, interrupts: 'I don't care for that I will have dash at it'. 22 August 1831
Hand-coloured lithograph
Depicted people Representation of: Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Date 1831
date QS:P571,+1831-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 255 millimetres
Width: 361 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1935,0522.4.191
Notes

(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954)

A satire on the debate of 9 Aug. on the Belgic Negotiations (see No. 16742, &c.) on Londonderry's motion for an Address for papers; his long provocative speech (published as a pamphlet) was answered by Grey and pugnaciously attacked by Brougham (see No. 16775). Carnarvon called the speech "a regular Will-o'-the Wisp", the only point of contact between print and debate: Durham, an unofficial adviser to King Leopold, was not present and was not mentioned. 'Parl. Deb.', 3rd s. v. 968 ff.; 'Corr. of Earl Grey with William IV', 1867, i. 326 f. For Will-o'-the-wisp cf. Nos. 8792, 12870.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-4-191
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