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The petitioning candidate for Westminster
Title
The petitioning candidate for Westminster [graphic].
Publication
[London] : Pubd. May 28th, 1784, by T. Corneille, Bruton Street, [28 May 1784]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 24.4 x 35 cm
Medium
laid paper,
Notes
Title etched below image.
Printmaker identified as Rowlandson and artist identified as Lord James Manners in the British Museum catalogue and Grego.
Later state, with alterations to text. For an earlier state with the title "The norther'n candidate for Westminster" and with the word "Scotia" in speech bubble misspelled "Scola," see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 784.05.28.01.1+.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides.
Provenance
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Summary
"Fox, with a fox's head and brush and dressed in tartan kilt and plaid, gallops (right to left) on a shaggy pony along the road from Kirkwall to London. He waves his cap, saying, "From the Heath covered Mountains of Scotia I come." The background is a mountainous landscape with a lake on which is a boat. A signpost (left) points (right) 'To Kirkwall' and (left) 'To London'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 15, 2016
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, no. 6602
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 143
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1784.
Etchings - England - London - 1784.
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