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A Classical Subject! "Demitto auviculas, ut uniquoe asellus, Cum gravius dorso subiit onus_"

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A Classical Subject! "Demitto auviculas, ut uniquoe asellus, Cum gravius dorso subiit onus_"

Sir Robert Peel|Thomas McLean|John Doyle|Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby|George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle|Lord John Russell|Alfred Ducôte|Daniel O'Connell

Date
May 10, 1836
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 11/16 × 16 1/8 in. (29.7 × 41 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
2014.757.5(25)
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2014
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

British, Bury 1788–1850 London|British, 1788–1875|Irish, Dublin 1797–1868 London|British, 1799–1869|British, 1802–1864|British, 1792–1878|British, active 1830–40|Irish, Cahirciveen, Kerry 1775–1847 Genoa

Subjects and terms

  • Caricature
  • Politics
  • Men
  • Donkeys

The Met object ID 736602. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.