BIB_ID
458199
Accession number
MA 14829
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 print (on 4 pages) : lithograph, black and white ; sheet 35.3 x 24.6 cm
Notes
The portraits are printed on two sheets and constructed so that the same eyes and upper portion of the head serve for both images.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
A political satire of political rivals and friends, Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux, and John Singleton Copley, Baron Lyndhurst, in the form of a "metamorphic" or "lift the flap" print; item consists of two sheets which overlap to form the face of Lord Brougham; they are attached at the left hand margin, the smaller of the two printed with the lower half of Broughams smiling face, overlapping the larger sheet behind it and intended to be lifted to reveal the lower portion of the image which reveals the frowning face of Lord Lyndhurst.
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