Brentford sweepstakes [graphic].

Description

Title: Brentford sweepstakes [graphic].
Published / Created: [1769]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title etched in top part of image.
Date of publication from that of the magazine in which the plate appeared.
Numbered 'No. XII' in upper left corner.
Two lines of verse below image: All courses the first heat with vigour run, but 'tis with whip & spur the race is won.
Plate from: The Town and country magazine. London : A. Hamilton, Junr., v. 1(1769), p. 193.
Temporary local subject terms: Elections: Brentford elections, 1768 -- Emblems: cap of liberty and staff of maintenance of symbolic representation of John Wilkes -- Reference to John Wilkes's imprisonment -- Sergeant Whitaker -- David Roche -- Buildings: Mile End Assembly Room -- Medical: anti-venerial pills -- Reference to the House of Commons.
Provenance: Suckling; March 1956;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 10.8 x 17.8 cm, on sheet 13 x 22 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1769
Periodical illustrations England 1769
Etchings England London 1769
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Subject (Name): Carhampton, Henry Lawes Luttrell, Earl of, 1743-1821
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797.
Subject (Topic): Elections
Subjects: Carhampton, Henry Lawes Luttrell, Earl of, 1743-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Elections > Great Britain
England > 1769
England > London > 1769

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