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- Creator:
- Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- April 22d, 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.04.22.08+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The candidates for Middlesex and their supporters race (right to left) to Brentford. The foremost rider is Wilkes on a horse wearing a royal crown (indicating George III); he holds up the cap of 'Liberty' on its staff. Half a length behind, and neare...
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. as the act directs, by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain, Middlesex (England), and England.
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Mainwaring, William, 1735-1821, Byng, George, ca. 1735-1789, Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793, House, Samuel, -1785, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Great Britain. Parliament
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, 1784, Politics and government, Elections, Crutches, Donkeys, Hobby horses, Horse racing, Horses, Justice, Liberty cap, Pharmacists, Political elections, Scales, Symbols, and Traffic signs & signals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Brentford race for the Middlesex septennial plate [graphic]
3.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 20 April 1784] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 48. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A parody of The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli in which Fox lies prone on a bed with a demon on his chest. Behind them a horse with bulging eyes pokes his head through the bedcurtains. On a table in the foreground are a pair of dice and dice-box
- Alternative Title:
- Covent Garden nightmare
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand [i.e. Field & Tuer] and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Name):
- Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Great Britain. Parliament, 1783-1784., and Great Britain. Parliament
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, 1784, Beds, Sleeping, Nightmares, Draperies, Demons, and Horses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Covent Garden night mare [graphic]
4.
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [19 May 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.05.19.01.2+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Political heat run in Covent Garden between old veteran a famous horse ...
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pub. 19 May, 1784, by WH, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816, Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805, and Great Britain. Parliament
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, 1784, Donkeys, Horses, and Political elections
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Westminster races a political heat run in Covent Garden between old veteran a famous horse the property of his M-----y, Duchess a filly the property of the Duke of D--------e, and Judas an Obstinate Ass who was clearly distanced / [graphic]