"A Will O'The Wisp" (BM 1935,0522.4.191)

No. 150. Brougham, as a will-o'-the-wisp, is followed or watched by four peers. He capers to the left, on long spidery legs; his body is a cylindrical lantern topped by his bewigged head. He is irradiated and looks slyly back from the corner of his eye. Lord Durham, stepping boldly forward, says: 'Let us take this Star for our guide, and Proceed boldly'. Lord Grey grips Durham's left arm, and steps gingerly from dry ground, saying, 'I fear we are getting bogged'. On the extreme right Lord Carnarvon grasps the coat-tails of Lord Londonderry, saying, 'Stop Man! T'is a "Will O' the Wisp" and will only lead you astray.—I tell you, you will only expose yourself to——' Londonderry, who is on Grey's right, interrupts: 'I don't care for that I will have dash at it'. 22 August 1831
Hand-coloured lithograph