The Westminster return [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. as the act directs by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
March 10th, 1785

Physical Description:

1 print : etching & drypoint, hand-colored, on laid paper ; plate mark 250 x 338 mm, on sheet 270 x 380 cm.

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Printmaker from unverified data from local card catalog record.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Proposed abolition of Chelsea Hospital -- Allusion to Chelsea pensioners -- Westminster electors as geese -- Allusion to the House of Commons -- Signs: sign-posts -- Asses -- Election scrutiny -- Butchers -- Weavers -- Taxes: small beer tax.
Suckling; February 1960; Acquisitions no.: 960-2-1-45.
Partial watermark top center of sheet: Fleur-de-lis on shield, with initials L V G below.

Associated Names:

Dent, W., fl. 1783-1793 [Printmaker]

Topics:

Chelsea Hospital for Women (London, England)
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Great Britain. Parliament
Hall, Edward, fl. 1784-1793
House, Samuel, d. 1785
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805

Topics:

Westminster (London, England) -- Politics and government

Language:

English

Genre:

Drypoints -- England -- London -- 1785
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1785
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1785

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

785.03.10.01+

Orbis Record:

7690366

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05750

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10727975

PID:

digcoll:550174