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Westminster Election cartoon

Maker

(artist)
1750-1811

Title

Westminster Election cartoon

Date of Production

1784

Medium

graphite, pen and grey-brown ink, grey-brown wash, watercolour, on wove paper, framed in grey-brown ink and wash but cut off on right edge

Dimensions

Height: 40 cm
Width: 60.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3641

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords






Provenance

Leger Galleries (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 8

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto (within the drawing): on wall at upper left, graphite, artist’s hand: “… Coalition”; all in grey ink, artist’s hand: on upper edge of framed picture: “DATE OBOLVM BELISARIO”; on wall at upper right: “Westminster / Election / …and Subscription / to pay the debts of / John Wilkes Esq / Aldeman Bill £1000 / …”. Mount, now cut down and in paper file: names identifying figures above when the drawing was mounted, in graphite: “Princes of / Wales”, “Wilkes”, “Sheridan”, “Fox”, “North?”, “Burke” and below the names “Henry William Bunbury 1750-1811 / Westminster Election 1784”.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink (now hidden under Japanese tissue): Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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