The park politicians [graphic]

Description

Title: The park politicians [graphic]
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [8 December 1766]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. according to act, Decr. 8, 1766, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: A scene in winter outside the walls of a palace, possibly in St. James's park (based on the sentry box). On the left a leafless tree hangs over a short, fat gentleman with a tall stick who faces right and appears to be talking to Lord Chatham in top boots and muff. In the middle of the design stands a doctor, in an old-fashioned wig and slit shoes, sniffing his gold-headed cane. A tall man and a very short man walk, with their backs to us, towards the sentry box under the palace walls
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge.
Plate numbered "6" in upper right corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Sentries -- Sentry box -- Male costume, 1766.
First of two plates on leaf 50.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.2 x 24.4 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.2 x 25 cm, on sheet 17.4 x 26 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 50. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1766
Etchings England London 1766
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Saint James's Park (London, England),
England
Subject (Name): Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Muffs
Staffs (Sticks)
Guards
Guardhouses
Walls
Subjects: Saint James's Park (London, England)
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 > Caricatures and cartoons
Clothing & dress > England > 1760-1770
Muffs
Staffs (Sticks)
Guards
Guardhouses
Walls
England > 1766
England > London > 1766

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