[The governor of Rue-peas] [graphic] / J.B.

Description

Title: [The governor of Rue-peas] [graphic] / J.B.
Creator: Baldrey, Joshua Kirby, 1754-1828, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Hastings, Warren,--1732-1818--Caricatures and cartoons.
Rich, E., active 1782-1788, publisher.
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow,--Baron,--1731-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Copyright Date: [20 February 1788]
Publication Place: [London]
Abstract: Thurlow (left), in wig and gown, leads a horse which draws a two-wheeled cart of peas. In the cart are Hastings (seated) and Burke (standing Both hold up pea-pods. In the background are Westminster Hall and other buildings. Cf. British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Possibily a proof state; no published state with lettering found.
Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Questionable attribution to Baldrey from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Extent: 1 print : etching with engraving on wove paper ; sheet 19.8 x 28 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1788.
Proofs.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1788.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Hastings, Warren,--1732-1818--Caricatures and cartoons.
Rich, E., active 1782-1788, publisher.
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow,--Baron,--1731-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7272