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A Hackney meeting   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
A Hackney meeting
Description
English: The two members for Middlesex simultaneously address a meeting of freeholders from a hustings against a building (The Mermaid, at Hackney) which forms a background. Both lean forward in profile to the right. Byng (left), thin and elegant, gesticulates with clenched fist, right arm above his head. He frowns, while Mainwaring (right) grimaces insinuatingly, his hands held out deprecatingly. From Byng's pocket issues a paper: 'Treatise on the use of Cocoa'. On the extreme left, behind Byng, stands Fox, holding Byng's hat. The other men on the platform, all wearing hats, are freely sketched. On the wooden barrier of the hustings are two bills, the lower part of which is concealed by the heads of the spectators, which reach across the lower edge of the design: 'Mermaid Hackney Meeting of the Freeholders for obtaining a Repeal of the odious, detestable, obnoxious, unconstitutional oppressive treasonable . . .' and 'Address to his Majesty by the Freeholders.' 1 February 1796
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: George Byng
Date 1796
date QS:P571,+1796-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 350 millimetres
Width: 250 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6500
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) A meeting, called by the sheriffs, was held on 21 Nov. to petition against the Treason and Sedition Bills, see BMSat 8687, &c. Mainwaring, the Ministerial member, was ill received; Byng was acclaimed. The meeting agreed on a petition to the throne and an address of congratulation to the King on his escape (see BMSat 8681). 'Hist. of Two Acts . . .', 1796, pp. 340-6; 'Lond. Chron.', 23 Nov. 1795. Cf. BMSat 9240. Byng was nicknamed 'Coco', cf. BMSat 9240.

Grego, 'Gillray', pp. 199-200. Wright and Evans, No. 143. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830. Copy, Grego, 'Hist. of Parliamentary Elections', 1892, p. 299.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6500
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