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The drum major of sedition
Title
The drum major of sedition [graphic].
Publication
[London] : Pubd. March 29, 1784, by Mrs. Dacheray, St. James's Street, [29 March 1784]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 35.0 x 26 cm, on sheet 40 x 30 cm
Notes
Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Ten lines of text below title: All gentlemen and others electors for Westminster who are ready and willing to surrender their rights and those of their fellow citizens to secret influence ...
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
In the center of the image, Major Cartwright holds a long staff in his right hand, as he delivers a pro-Pitt speech in Covent Garden. To his right, in a pleading attitude, stands Lord Hood, the ministerial candidate opposing Charles Fox in the upcoming Westminster election. Neither attracts any attention from the crowd of Fox's supporters listening to a man speaking from the portico of St. Paul's.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 30, 2005
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, no. 6474
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 121-2
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1784.
Etchings - England - London - 1784.
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