The Consolations of Travel, or a Celebrated Statesman Redressing in the New World the Errors of the Old.

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• ARTIST: John Doyle

• PUBLISHER: Published by Thomas McLean, London.

• MEDIUM: Lithograph,

  DATE: c. 1839

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 10 1/4 x 14 1/4" (28.5 x 36 cm) plus margins.

• DESCRIPTION: This scene, drawn by the famous British political cartoonist, caricaturist, and painter John Doyle (whose pseudonym H.B. is visible in the lower-left corner of the image) depicts a carriage titled "New Englander" in transit.. The name ‘Vict. Morpeth’ is also visible on the side, suggesting a journey by a member of the nobility who urges his horses forward to fix the problems of a new world while ignoring the unhappiness behind him.

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• CONDITION: Good condition and color.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Caricatures and Satirical , Political & Early American