File:City election race for the court plate LCCN2003674090.jpg
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English: Title: City election race for the court plate
Abstract: Print shows on the left P--t [Pitt], labeled "Bank Directorship", banging his head on the Temple Bar before even getting started, the center is filled with N--n [?], labeled "Motion for paying the Prince's Debts", falling off the back of a fox, labeled "Patriotism", which is ridden by T--e [possibly Rev. John Horne Tooke], and L--s [Sir Watkins Lewis] riding a goat, labeled "British Hospitality", leaping over a log labeled "Banco Regis", and on the right, a woman labeled "Annuity" carrying a man with a wooden leg, W--n [Brook Watson], on her shoulders, and on the far right, in the lead, is C--s [William Curtis], proclaiming "Who would not run for a Contract - Biscuits for ever - Huzza." Physical description: 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; 18.3 x 25 cm. (plate) Notes: Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).; Caption continues: Run for by G[entlemen] of all Ages from Guildhall over the course to St. Stephen's - the first 4 to be Stalled - each to go his own way - the odds in favor of Biscuit, a great Favorite with the Livery Jockies because a Novelty and quite independent, neither promising to do good or bad - ....; Title from item. |
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| Date | before 1790 | ||
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| Author | British Cartoon Prints Collection | ||
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