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Sir Robert Peel.- Metamorphic novelty card.- Anonymous (circa 1840s) The Cabinet, lithographed sheet with hand-colouring, with two added hinged flaps, as issued, 285 x 235 mm. (11 1/4 x 9 1/4 in), the flaps each approx. 130 x 80 mm. (5 1/8 x 3 1/4 in), minor nicks and tears to extremities, surface dirt, unframed, [circa 1845].⁂ The image with the flaps closed shows a cabinet - a piece of furniture. When the doors are opened they reveal the standing portrait figures of seven members of Peel's c. 1845 cabinet. From left to right, Lord Lindhurst, Sir J. Graham, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Wharncliffe, Sir R. Peel, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Lord Stanley.
