Master Billy's procession to Grocers Hall [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pub. March 8th by W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand
[8 March] 1784

Copyright Date:

[8 March] 1784.

Physical Description:

1 print : etching, hand-colored; plate mark 24.8 x 35 cm, on sheet 31 x 44 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6442
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 119-20

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Mounted to 32 x 45 cm.

Abstract:

A large and animated procession approaches the Grocers' Hall on the left, led by musicians and Wilkes who tosses coins to the crowd. In the first of the three coaches, shown as a child's or an invalid's chair, sits Sir Watkin Lewes, alderman and M.P. for the City, in the central one rides Pitt, behind him Sir Barnard Turner, alderman and Sheriff. The windows of the buildings are filled with spectators. On the right, above the vitrine to "Neat Wines" shop, hangs a large portrait of Lord Chatham. A burlesque rendition of the procession that took place on February 28.

Associated Names:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Printmaker]
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810 [Publisher]

Topics:

Grocers' Company (London, England)
Lewes, Watkin, Sir, 1740?-1821
Parades &
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Political elections -- England -- Westminster -- 1784
Turner, Barnard, 1741 or 1742-1784
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797

Topics:

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1789

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1784
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1784

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

784.03.08.02+ Impression 1

Orbis Record:

6982841

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05437

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10727442

PID:

digcoll:947431