"Satire on the election of April 1754; the elected candidates chaired to Guildhall; the first state without the results of the poll in the foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Some folks at Guild-Hall
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Earlier state, without "Ministers of propagation" inscribed below a group of clergymen in upper left background., Eight stanzas of verse in four columns below title: O! see my raree shew good folks, all you who love election jokes ..., Plate numbered 'No. 3' on lower right., and Temporary local subject terms: Lottery: allusion to profits from lottery -- Shows: allusion to raree show -- Bills: Jews Naturalization Bill, 1753 -- Societies: Propagation of the Gospel -- Silversmiths: B. Jiffles -- Buildings -- Trades: butchers -- Newspapers: The Public Advertiser -- City of London: contest for representation of the City -- Quackery -- Livery of London: address to the Livery of London by A. Freeport, Feb. 1754 -- Literature: Address to the Livery of London by Andrew Freeport, 1754 -- Elections: parliamentary elections, 1754 -- Bridges: allusion to the Blackfriars Bridge -- Armine Wodehouse, 5th bt., ca. 1714-1777
Publisher:
Sold by John Smith at Hogarths Head, opposite Wood Street, Cheapside
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark., 'Price 6d.', Eight stanzas of verse in four columns below image: O! Shade of Durfey grant me vit-a / To sing these jockies of the City ..., Temporary local subject terms: Elections: parliamentary elections, 1754 -- Elections: contest for representation of the City of London -- Bills: Jews Naturalization Bill, 1753 -- Jews: pedlar -- Race: horse race -- Jockies -- Gin-seller -- Elections: candidates -- Horses -- Grand stands -- Slingsby Bether, 1695-1758, 'Buzzard' -- Sir Robert Ladbroke, 1713-1773 -- Sir William Clavert, ?1703-1761 -- Allusion to Mary Squires, d. 1761., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, 1754, and sold by M. Cooper at the Globe in Pater Noster Row
Title engraved above image., Temporary local subject terms: British Lion -- Buildings: church in the Ward of Bow., and Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 14.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Minorca (Spain)
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Barnard, John, 1681-1770, and Bethel, Slingsby, 1695-1758