'Inflammation of the dura mater' William Wallace An exhausted Member of Parliament

An exhausted Member of Parliament

as England embarked on a well-deserved lap of honour

The painting is annotated lower left: 'Scale

where twenty eight prints are displayed in the window panes

This cartoon depicts John Bull

'Inflammation of the dura mater' William Wallace An exhausted Member of ParliamentInternal surface of a portion of the human dura mater, one of the meninges (membranes of the central nervous system) covering the right hemisphere of the brain, showing inflammation. Plate 1 from the monograph The morbid anatomy of the human brain; being illustrations of the most frequent and important organic diseases to which that viscus is subject, by Robert Hooper (London, Longman, Rees, 1826). Inscribed: 'PLATE I. J. Howship, delt. J. Wedgewood