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The editor of "The Times"   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Daniel Maclise

Published by: James Fraser
Title
The editor of "The Times"
Description
English: Brougham, in wig and gown, writes, bending over the table. The shadow of his profile, caricatured, and with elongated nose which seems to be dipping into the ink-pot, is thrown on the wall beside him. On the floor is a copy of '[The Ti]mes'. A wall-clock behind him (left) points to 3 o'clock. Below the design is his signature: 'yrs H Brougham'. December 1831
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Depicted people Representation of: Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Date 1830
date QS:P571,+1830-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 206 millimetres
Width: 126 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1859,0625.87
Notes

(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954) >From 'Fraser's Magazine', iv. 609.

Brougham is described as writing a leading article: "The hour is three— just in time for the latest touch for the morning,—the subject, in all probability, some abuse of Lord Grey (a favourite topic), under cover of a seeming panegyric. Perhaps it may be some of that simulated censure of himself, which is intended to throw a doubt upon the authorship; but when we look upon the eager eye, the relaxed wig, the flung-aside gown, the whole air full of grimace and grog, it strikes us that abuse of the venerable senior, as he calls him, who is now nepotising [see No. 16578, &c] at the head of affairs is the staple commodity which is flowing full and fast from his nimble and caustic pen." 'The Ballot', 4 Dec, comments on print and article in an ironically pungent attack on man and paper. Brougham is said to intend a libel action: "I have ever been a consistent politician", it is therefore a grievous injury "to attempt to identify me with a journal which is notorious for its disregard of manly, honourable, and virtuous qualities . . .". Cf. No. 16844. For Brougham; and Grey see No. 16654, &c.; for 'The Times', Nos. 16654, 16670, 16714, 16936, 16938, 17318.

Reproduced, G. T. Garratt, 'Lord Brougham', 1935, p. 252.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1859-0625-87
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