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1. The Robin Hood Society [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1783?]
- Call Number:
- 783.05.25.02.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On the right, the chairman of the Robin Hood Society leans over a rostrum toward the speaker, Jeffery Dunstan, a hawker whose physical deformities and wit led to his election as the "mayor of Garrett" shown in the image behind him on the wall. The caricatured audience, plebeian in its appearance, along with the subject of an upcoming debate announced on the side of the rostrum, further ridicule this well-known debating society
- Description:
- Title etched at bottom of image. and Cf. No. 6331 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Debates and debating, Audiences, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Robin Hood Society [graphic].
2. War [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 9 March 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.03.09.02.1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In the lower left corner stands Lord North, his right arm raised, delivering a speech while Cornwall, the Speaker, is looking at him from his chair in the upper left corner of the image. On the right, rising from a cloud, are Fox and Burke, both violently gesticulating in their attack on North. Below the figures of North and Fox are excerpts from their speeches attacking each other before forming coalition
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Companion print to British Museum catalogue 6188.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
- Subject (Topic):
- Public speaking, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > War [graphic].