A rushing torrent of water, representing parliamentary reform, pours through a gap in a wall into the river Thames throwing numerous men including the Duke of Wellington off their feet. Lithograph by Henry Heath, 1832.

Wellington flees from the chaos trampling on a prostrate bishop. Behind Wellington is Baron Lyndhurst, then Lord Chancellor, who clutches the gown of the fleeing Archbishop of Canterbury. Numerous other figures, oppenents of reform, are drowning in the water

On the protracted Reform crisis of 1831-2 which the Duke of Wellington and his party opposed, despite which the revised bill was passed in April 1832

[London] (41 Piccadilly) : S.W. Fores, 1832.

1 print : lithograph ; image and border 27.8 x 35.9 cm

Cleansing the Augean stable. Caricatures by HH. No. 15.

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, Vol XI, London 1954, no. 17102

Wellcome Collection 642194i