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Scene at an English Orange Lodge

Print
1832 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This caricature is from a satirical journal The Looking Glass or Caricature Annual, which was issued monthly between January 1830 and December 1832. The artist Robert Seymour (1798?-1836) was a popular and prolific illustrator and satirical cartoonist. His political caricatures were published in several London periodicals. This scene in an lodge of the Orange Order is one of a series referring to the Irish political situation.

Seymour went on to supply comic illustrations to stories by Charles Dickens. However, he was sensitive about his status as an artist, and was upset when Dickens, 12 years his junior and not yet an established writer, criticised his drawings and issued him with instructions for revising and improving them. Humiliated and frustrated by this situation, he committed suicide on 20 April 1836.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleScene at an English Orange Lodge (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Lithograph on paper
Brief description
Print, lithograph, 'Scene at an English Orange Lodge', Robert Seymour, UK, 1832
Physical description
Print, lithograph, 'Scene at an English Orange Lodge'.
Dimensions
  • Volume height: 406mm
size of volume
Summary
This caricature is from a satirical journal The Looking Glass or Caricature Annual, which was issued monthly between January 1830 and December 1832. The artist Robert Seymour (1798?-1836) was a popular and prolific illustrator and satirical cartoonist. His political caricatures were published in several London periodicals. This scene in an lodge of the Orange Order is one of a series referring to the Irish political situation.

Seymour went on to supply comic illustrations to stories by Charles Dickens. However, he was sensitive about his status as an artist, and was upset when Dickens, 12 years his junior and not yet an established writer, criticised his drawings and issued him with instructions for revising and improving them. Humiliated and frustrated by this situation, he committed suicide on 20 April 1836.
Collection
Accession number
E.5268-1904

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Record createdMay 9, 2003
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