Election hints. [graphic]. Plate 2
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Description
- Title
- Election hints. [graphic]. Plate 2
- Contributor
- Tregear, G. S. active 19th century, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [1830?]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pub. by G.S. Tregear at his sporting & comic print warehouse, 96 Cheapside
- Abstract
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"Sheet of satirical vignettes; at centre, 'Going to the Pole-Booth-ia', a man in furs confronted by a polar bear. Around the central design: 'First reading', a woman instructing a child in its ABC; 'Home department', a guard in bearskin; 'Usher of the black rod', a demon; 'Passing a bill', two shopkeepers scrutinising a bill presented by a dandy; 'Opponents in the field', a duel; 'A representative', boys with a guy on a stretcher; 'Proposing an amendment', the same woman about to beat the child with a bundle of twigs; 'Foreign affairs', a man with native American accoutrements but wearing western dress, offering to scalp an officer with a razor; 'Mastr. Genl. of the Ordnance', an animated cannon with skeletal limbs and a bomb for a tail; 'Master of the horse', a man driving a cart at speed, on which a dead horse is laid."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title from text above images.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Eleven designs on one plate, each individually titled.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Duels -- Guns: Pistols -- Beefeaters -- Reference to North Pole -- Male costume: Fur hooded coat -- American Indians -- Banks -- Popery -- Emblems: Pope's triple crown -- Horses.
Numbered in manuscript at top of sheet: 109. - Provenance
- Caricatures II; September 1968;
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 270 x 371 mm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 830.00.00.13+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Satires (Visual works) England 1830
Etchings England London 1830
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Dueling
Handguns
Cannons
Honor guards
Polar bears
Lanterns
Carriages & coaches - Subjects
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Dueling
Handguns
Cannons
Honor guards
Polar bears
Lanterns
Carriages & coaches
England > 1830
England > London > 1830
19th century
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9642334
- Object ID (OID)
- 10970511