The Robin Hood Society [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. May 25, 1783, by W Humphrey, No 227 Strand
[25 May 1783]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching & engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 168 x 218 mm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6331

Notes:

Title from item.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted to 18 x 23 cm.

Abstract:

On the right, the chairman of the Robin Hood Society leans over a rostrum toward the speaker, Jeffery Dunstan, a hawker whose physical deformities and wit led to his election as the "mayor of Garrett" shown in the image behind him on the wall. The caricatured audience, plebeian in its appearance, along with the subject of an upcoming debate announced on the side of the rostrum, further ridicule this well-known debating society.

Topics:

Audiences
Clothing & dress -- England -- 1780-1790
Debates and debating -- England -- London
Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797
Interiors -- England -- 18th century

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings -- England -- London -- 1783
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1783
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1783

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

783.05.25.02.1

Orbis Record:

6832153

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05202

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10724764

PID:

digcoll:2755487