A meeting of the female canvassers in Covent Garden [graphic] / WPC ; M.

Edition:

[2nd state].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pub. as the act directs by W. Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane
April 27, 1784

Physical Description:

1 print : etching, hand-colored, on laid paper ; sheet 26 x 33 cm.

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Signed "M." in the lower right corner.
Earlier state without imprint date and with alterations to the design. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 6, no. 6557.
Temporary local subject terms: Canvassing: Countess of Buckinghamshire -- Allusion to Election Committee -- Allusion to Wood's Hotel -- Covent Garden -- Allusion to scrutiny -- Allusion to political grapes -- Election favors -- Voting: plumpers -- Ballad singers -- Placards -- Key to the Back Stairs -- Allusion to Hervey Redmond, 2nd Viscount Montmorres, 1746?-1797 -- Allusion to John Churchill, , fl. 1784.
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-8-65.
Watermark in center of sheet: fleur-de-lis with initials G [or C?] R.

Associated Names:

Carey, William Paulet, 1759-1839 [Printmaker]
Holland, William, active 1782-1817 [Publisher]

Topics:

Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Great Britain. Parliament
Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805

Topics:

Westminster (London, England) -- Politics and government

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:

784.04.27.02.2+

Orbis Record:

7654769

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05528

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10727804

PID:

digcoll:947517