Robert Seymour | Symptoms of a long debate : "Mr. Spaker [sic], I shall now conclude, and I hope I have awakened the House to a sense of the wrongs of six millions of the finest pisantry in the universe!" | Collection Online

Symptoms of a long debate : "Mr. Spaker [sic], I shall now conclude, and I hope I have awakened the House to a sense of the wrongs of six millions of the finest pisantry in the universe!"

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Robert Seymour

1798-1836

Symptoms of a long debate : "Mr. Spaker [sic], I shall now conclude, and I hope I have awakened the House to a sense of the wrongs of six millions of the finest pisantry in the universe!"

Published

[London] : [George Goodger?], [1831?]

wood engraving with letterpress

image: 85 x 83 mm; sheet: 118 x 131 mm

Peel 2220

Notes

Title from caption.
The same image appeard in "The gallery of 140 comicalities" (London: Goodger, 1831), page 3.

Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

View of a meeting of Parliament (?), wherein half the participants are fast asleep.

Associated names

Goodger, George, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.

Artist

Seymour, Robert

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Symptoms of a long debate : "Mr. Spaker [sic], I shall now conclude, and I hope I have awakened the House to a sense of the wrongs of six millions of the finest pisantry in the universe!"