Doyle, John (1797-1868); HB — (Lithograph) "Medea... " (Hb Sketches No. 528)
London: Thomas McLean, 1838. Original B&W lithograph on wove paper. 17 × 11.5 inches. Good. Heavy foxing uniformly across the sheet; visible water stain in the top right corner; minor loss on top left corner. Signed in the plate with the initials HB. This 1838 cartoon likely critiques the political destruction or abandonment of reform measures especially relating to Irish Church reform by those who originally sponsored or supported them, possibly implicating Lord Melbourne or members of his Whig government John Doyle, known by the pen name H. B. was an Irish political cartoonist, caricaturist, painter and lithographer. .