Image: Westminster election 1780 LCCN2004673387
Description: Title: Westminster election 1780 Abstract: Print shows Lord Lincoln standing on the right of St. Paul's portico, Charles James Fox standing in the center with Britannia and the British lion, and on the left, James Young, acting as proxy for Admiral Rodney, with Neptune, during the Westminster election; a large crowd fills the foreground. The name "Procter" over a doorway to the left probably refers to Sir William Beauchamp Proctor, a candidate in a riotous by-election in Brentford in December 1768. Physical description: 1 print : etching. Notes: Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).; Inscribed in ink at top: N.B. This is the original plate - out of the "Strawberry Hill Collection" etched by Lord Townsend who sometimes assumed the cognomen of "Earwig" - this plate was afterwards more finished - see opposite.; E--g inv.; Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 775.; Title from item.
Title: Westminster election 1780 LCCN2004673387
Credit: Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2004673387 Image download: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a40000/3a45000/3a45600/3a45645r.jpg Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a45645
Author: N.B. This is the original plate - out of the "Strawberry Hill Collection" etched by Lord Townsend who sometimes assumed the cognomen of "Earwig" - this plate was afterwards more finished - see opposite
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