The horse guards carried by a "coup de main".

Lithograph, 27 x 39 cm, hand-coloured, signed in the plate "HB" (pseudonym of John Doyle) (trimmed to the border).

Under passe-partout.

Political cartoon figuring guardsmen and sentries attempting to stop the entrance of a coach carrying Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham. "HB Sketches No. 118" from the series "Political sketches". Striking are the dandified headdresses of the guardsmen.