drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1854,0513.366
- Description
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"True Reform of Parliament, or Whitsbread's Entire", study for a satirical print of the same title; at centre, Sir Francis Burdett declaims, addressing those making a bonfire of documents to left, beyond to right a mob pulling down the House of Commons. c.1809
Graphite, touched with pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1809
- Dimensions
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Height: 328 millimetres
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Width: 400 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Study for BMSat 11338 (engraved and published 14 June 1809). A meeting of 'Electors of Westminster' was held in Westminster Hall on 29 March "to express their sentiments on the inquiry into the Conduct of the ... Duke of York at which Burdett and Whitbread, the only two MPs present, urged immediate Parliamentary Reform.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1854
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1854,0513.366
