The Westminster deserter drum'd out of the regiment [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
[publisher not identified]
[18 May 1784]

Copyright Date:

[18 May 1784]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 25 x 36 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6586
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 138-40

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Printmaker and date of publication from Grego.
Plate from: The history of the Westminster election.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Churches: St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden -- Proposed tax on maidservants -- Chelsea Hospital pensioners -- Hustings -- Drumming for the hustings -- Slogans: 'Champion of the people' -- Brooms -- Veterans -- Crutches -- Cheering crowds.
Hill, Peter Murray, Chelsea, London; February 1959.
Watermark in center of sheet.
Mounted.

Abstract:

"Sir Cecil Wray (left) is being drummed away from the hustings; Sam House, the central figure, beats a drum, looking at Wray. On the right, ignoring Wray, stands Fox addressing the populace, a cheering crowd behind him; he holds a flag on which is the figure of Britannia seated, holding the staff and cap of Liberty, and the words 'Champion of the People'. He says, "Friends & Fellow Citizens I cannot find words to express my feelings to you upon this Victory". Wray walks beside a procession which marches to Sam House's drum. It is headed by Chelsea pensioners with wooden legs, who scowl at him; one carries a crutch over his shoulder. They have two flags, inscribed respectively 'May all public Deserters feel public Resentment' (Wray had deserted the cause of Fox who nominated him for Westminster in 1782, see British Museum Satires No. 5998), and 'Chealsea Hospital'. They are followed by a detachment of maidservants, with a flag inscribed 'Tax on Maid Servants'; they carry over their shoulders a broom, a brush, a mop, a shovel. A crowd cheers frantically, hats are waved at the procession and at Fox. Behind Fox is part of the portico of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, the scene of his triumph at the hustings, see British Museum Satires No. 6590, &c."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Westminster deserter drummed out of the regiment

Associated Names:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Printmaker]

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Caricatures and cartoons
Drums (Musical instruments)
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Great Britain. Parliament
Harvey, Francis
House, Samuel, d. 1785
Riviere & S
Servants
Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805

Topics:

Westminster (London, England) -- Politics and government

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1784
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1784

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

784.05.18.01

Orbis Record:

7660495

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05560

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10727832

PID:

digcoll:947534