'Conferring the Honorary Degree of D.C.L. Upon The Russian Embassador', 1834. Creator: John Doyle. # 2751946

'Conferring the Honorary Degree of D.C.L. Upon The Russian Embassador', 1834. Creator: John Doyle.

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'Conferring the Honorary Degree of D.C.L. Upon The Russian Embassador, omitted by mistake in the ceremonies of the 10th June at Oxford', 1834. Chancellor of Oxford University Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, confers the DCL (Doctor of Civil Law) degree on Christoph von Lieven, Russian ambassador to London, as Lieven's wife Dorothea Khristoforovna Lieven looks on. Satirical cartoon on British politics by 'H.B.' (John Doyle). [Thomas McLean, London, 1834]

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People Information

Creator

John Doyle, attributed to: {British; Irish}: Artist, caricaturist, painter

Subject

John Scott, Earl of Eldon: British: Lord Chancellor, politician
Ernest Augustus I: British: Soldier, field marshal
Dorothea von Lieven: Russian, Baltic-German: Countess of Lieven, noblewoman
Duke of Wellington: British, Irish: General, commander of the British army, statesman, prime minister
Christoph von Lieven: Russian: Nobleman, general, ambassador, diplomat, soldier