1-645-998 - The London Archives (City of London)/Heritage Images

'An Irish wake, or the Whisky Club singing a requiem to the manes of the persecuted and - Queen', 1821. George IV, William Curtis, Viscount Castlereagh, Benjamin Bloomfield and others sit around a table with glasses of whisky in their hands. A satire on the death of the Queen and the dinner given in Dublin on 23rd August.