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A Welsh corporation meeting   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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A Welsh corporation meeting
Description
English: A sequel to BMSat 7221. An altercation between members of a corporation. A man holding a document has had his wig snatched off; his assailant (Powell) is being restrained, but a very thin man wearing bands, his arm linked in Powell's, kicks him. Others look on. A form has been overturned. Beneath the title is etched: 'The Corporation of Swansea met at their Guildhall Nor 2 1787 when Gabrial Powell, Recorder, Steward to the Duke of Beaufort, brought up an Attoy &c Agd 81 Snatched out of the Hands of Mr Padley a Paper which he was reading that contained a proposition made by G. P. to Mortgage the Corperation Estate for £500 to oppose an Act for new paving the Town & improving the Harbour, his Son, Thos Powell, a Clargyman & Alderman afterwards knocked down Mr Chas Collins an Eminent Surgeon another Burgess who insisted on reading the Paper before he was called to for his Vote & while on the Ground most malignently & Cowerdly kicked him in ye Breast, the Father seasd Mr Collinss Wig: Robert Morris Esqr bursts into the Room restores the Wig & puts an end to the Affray. The disgraceful proposal was afterwards card 10 to 5.' 1787
Etching
Depicted people Associated with: Charles Collins of Swansea
Date 1787
date QS:P571,+1787-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 270 millimetres
Width: 377 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1851,0901.368
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

Powell is a tall upright man; for his opposition to the Swansea Paving Bill see BMSat 7221.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-368
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