A meeting of the female canvassers in Covent Garden [graphic]

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Title: A meeting of the female canvassers in Covent Garden [graphic]
Creator: Carey, William Paulet, 1759-1839, printmaker
Contributor: Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: April 27, 1784.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. as the act directs by W. Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Signed "M." in the lower right corner.
Earlier state without imprint date and with alterations to the design. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6557.
Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Election Committee -- Allusion to Wood's Hotel -- Covent Garden -- Allusion to scrutiny -- Allusion to political grapes -- Election favors -- Voting: plumpers -- Ballad singers -- Placards -- Key to the Back Stairs -- Allusion to Hervey Redmond, 2nd Viscount Montmorres, 1746?-1797 -- Allusion to John Churchill, , fl. 1784.
Watermark in center of sheet: fleur-de-lis with initials G [or C?] R.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 26 x 33 cm
Edition: [2nd state].
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1784
Etchings England London 1784
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
London.
Subject (Name): Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805
Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic): Political elections
Elections, 1784
Canvassing
Singers
Subjects: Political elections > England > London
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805 > Caricatures and cartoons
Great Britain. Parliament > Elections, 1784
Canvassing > England > London
Singers
England > 1784
England > London > 1784

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