2-701-726 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Im:Patience in a Punt. or Otium Cum dignitate - Versus - the Coronation', 1838. Satire on the coronation of Queen Victoria. British lawyer Charles Phillips and politician Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) are fishing from a boat. Their speech bubbles read: 'All owing I suppose, to the spread of world knowledge', and: 'Gudgeons don't bite as they used. I have been trying all kinds of bait lately, and can scarcely get a nibble'. From "Political sketches of H.B.", no 548.