John Wilkes Esqr [graphic]

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Title: John Wilkes Esqr [graphic]
Alternative Title: John Wilkes Esquire
Creator: Cook, Thomas, approximately 1744-1818, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
G. G. and J. Robinson (Paternoster Row, London, England), publisher.
Published / Created: April 1st, 1800.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by G.G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row
Abstract: Caricatural portrait of John Wilkes sitting on a chair holding stick topped by a cap of Liberty. On the table beside him are two issues of the newspaper North Briton, nos. 17 and 45 as well as a box with a feather pen in an inkwell
Description: Title engraved below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left side.
Copy of no. 4050 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Mounted to 482 x 305 mm. With Bowdich's notes on recto of mount.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 353 x 251 mm, on sheet 365 x 253 mm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1807
Material: engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Name): Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Subject (Topic): Legislators
Subjects: Wilkes, John, 1725-1797 > Caricatures and cartoons
Legislators > Great Britain > 18th century
England > London > 1807

Access: Public
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