The general election [graphic] / W.D.

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd as the Act directs by T. Brown, Rathbone Place
April 7, 1784

Physical Description:

1 print : etching & drypoint ; plate mark 351 x 250 mm., on sheet 38 x 28 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 6, no. 6507

Notes:

TItle from item.
W.D. is the monogram: William Dent.
Mounted to 41 x 30 cm.

Abstract:

The disproportionately large heads in wigs of, from left, Lord North, Charles Fox, and Edmund Burke, are displayed on top of Temple Bar. The arch contains reversed and burlesqued royal arms. In three niches below the arch stand headless statues of, from left, North as Avarice, Fox, shown as a fox, as Ambition, and Burke as Hypocrisy. The declaration signed by 'Justice' and pasted to the gate in the archway explains the reasons for elevating the three Whigs so highly, in a manner reminiscent of the execution of the Jacobite leaders in 1746. On the left are pasted two playbills. The upper one refers to the King's candidates in the Westminster election, the lower one to Fox as Cromwell, North as Boreas, and Burke as St. Omer, a 7th-century bishop who became blind in his old age. On the opposite side of the archway, an advertisement by 'Dr. Ax' is followed by a plea for votes from Cerberus whose three heads are named after North, Burke, and Fox.

Associated Names:

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

Topics:

Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Coats of arms
Eyeglasses
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Foxes
Gateways
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Political elections -- England -- Westminster -- 1784
Temple Bar (London, England)
Wigs

Language:

English

Genre:

Advertisements
Drypoints -- England -- London -- 1784
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1784
Playbills
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1784

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

784.04.07.02+

Orbis Record:

7052422

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05487

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10727491

PID:

digcoll:947481