"Satire on young Whig supporters and their supposedly republican tendencies: interior of a tavern with seven young gentlemen drinking at a table on which is a calf's head with a moustache and a nightcap; one of the party holds an axe; an eighth gentleman looks out of the window at a bonfire in the street below; on the wall is a picture of the execution of Charles I."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Calf's Head Club
Description:
Title engraved above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Formerly attributed to Hogarth, now thought to be by Van der Gucht. See British Museum online catalogue., "Price 6d."--Lower right corner., Five lines of text below image: The healths. To the pious memory of Oliver Cromwell, damnation to the race of the Stuarts To the glorious year, 1648. To the man in the mask, &c. &c. &c., and Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet; mounted to 34 x 45 cm.
