[An elector for Middlesex] [art original]

Description

Title: [An elector for Middlesex] [art original]
Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created: [approximately 1805]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A countryman, with companion horse and dog, stands outside of a city gate pleading with two guardsmen to permit him entry. His plea begins, "Hollo! you Master Whiskers don't keep me here in the cold all night. If you want to know who I am I tell you I am an Elector for Middlesex!" One guard responds, "Elector of Middlesex!! I never heard of that elector before, he must be a great man, open the gates immediately."
Description: Title and date devised by cataloger.
Artist's signature inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand below image.
Provenance: Purchased from Abbott and Holder, February 1999.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 30.1 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1805
Watercolors British 19th century
Graphite drawings British 19th century
Watermarks (Paper) 1805
Material: graphite pencil and watercolor with ink inscriptions ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Gates
Guards
Subjects: Gates
Guards
England > 1805
British > 19th century
1805

Access: Public
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Citation: G.M. Woodward, An Elector for Middlesex. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.