A sick man in bed, offered a warming pan by his maid and advice by his physician; representing Lord John Russell being given a seat at Stroud by Melbourne after his defeat in South Devon, looking for support to the radical Daniel O'Connell. Lithograph, 1835.

The persons shown are listed below in this catalogue record, starting from the left

The foot of Russell's bed is embellished: "Vive la Republic" below a bonnet-rouge, his cover with: "Stroud" above the menacing shadow of Lord Lyndhurst's profile. O'Connell instructs: "Now keep quiet and follow my directions", Melbourne says: "You used to object to warming pans now I dare say you feel the comforts of such a thing", the patient replies: "I do indeed Mrs M-b-n, who could have thought I should have met with such a chill in Devonshire, but it has been a most unusual season". The warming pan is embellished with a fox's head and beside the patient stands a medicine bottle

[London] (26 Haymarket) : Thos. McLean, 1 June 1835 ([London] : Ducôté and Stephen's Lithography)

1 print : lithograph ; border 25.2 x 35.3 cm.

Comforts of a warming pan.

With: front page printed on reverse, containing fourteen scenes

Too late for the British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1870-1954

Wellcome Collection 12243i