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At a meeting of the committee for promoting the election of John Horne Tooke Esq. in the parish of

Published / Created:
[1796]
Call Number:
File 646 796 At861+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title., Dated June 23, 1796., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812. and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1796 and Elections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > At a meeting of the committee for promoting the election of John Horne Tooke Esq. in the parish of St. James’s Westminster ...

2.
S. Alan Gardiner. Covent Garden [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. June 1796]
Call Number:
796.06.00.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Sir Alan Gardner (left) in naval uniform, bends forward to cut off, with a sickle inscribed 'Loyalty', the head of Fox, which is planted in the ground like some monstrous vegetable, the hair terminating in leaves. One of these Gardner holds, saying, "My Life and Services are ever devoted to my King & Country". Fox says: "I was always a Staunch Friend to the Crops and Sans Culottes but this damn'd Crop is quite unexpected". Gardner stands on 'Constitutional Ground'. Behind him stands Britannia, towering above him, and holding a laurel wreath over his head; she says: "Go on, Britain approves and will protect you!" On her spear is the cap of Liberty. More 'venemous' democrats are being drawn towards flames by the Devil (right), a figure like that of BMSat 6283. He puts his trident-like rake in the neck of Horne Tooke, who has a reptilian body with a barbed tail and feline claws, saying, "Long look'd for come at last Welcome thou Staunch Friend and faithful Servant, enter thou onto the Hot-bed prepared for thee." Tooke, his head in profile to the right, says, "Now will no prospering Virtue gall my jaundiced Eye - nor people foster'd by a belov'd Sovereign and defended by the Wisdom of his Counsellors. - To Anarchy & Confusion I will blow my Horne, and wallow in every thing that's damnable". The Devil clutches in the talons of his right foot the head of Thelwall, who says, "This will not Tell well." His left foot tramples the neck of Hardy, who says, "I was Fool Hardy". In the background is a man-of-war, Queen, her flag inscribed 'June Ist'. Below the title: 'Weeds carefully eradicated, & Venemous Reptiles destroy'd \ by Royal Patent \ God save the King.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sir Alan Gardiner, Covent Garden
Description:
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Royal Navy: "Queen"., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and Mounted to 31 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament, Gardner, Alan Gardner, Baron, 1742-1809, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Thelwall, John, 1764-1834, and Hardy, Thomas, 1752-1832
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1796, First of June, Battle of the, 1794, Trials (Treason), Britannia (Symbolic character), Liberty cap, Devil, and Wreaths
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > S. Alan Gardiner. Covent Garden [graphic].