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The Rival Watermen (caricature)
Plate no.2.
A satirical cartoonist uses tales of watermen’s rivalry to make a political point. Watermen had a long history of wrangling with passengers over fares and finding devious means of ousting their rivals. This lithograph, published two days after Queen Victoria’s wedding in February 1840, shows the Prime Minister Lord Melbourne encouraging the Queen in her marriage choice of Prince Albert
A satirical cartoonist uses tales of watermen’s rivalry to make a political point. Watermen had a long history of wrangling with passengers over fares and finding devious means of ousting their rivals. This lithograph, published two days after Queen Victoria’s wedding in February 1840, shows the Prime Minister Lord Melbourne encouraging the Queen in her marriage choice of Prince Albert
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Object Details
| ID: | PAF3973 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | McLean, Thomas; Doyle, John McLean, Thomas |
| Date made: | 12 Feb 1840 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Mount: 297 mm x 435 mm |