print;
broadside;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.3713
- Title
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Object: Bristol and Nottingham against London: or, the Funeral of City Faction
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Object: Bristol and Nottingham Instructions
- Description
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A broadside on the Bristol and Nottingham Instructions of 1742, defending Robert Walpole; with an etching altered from an earlier broadside of 1740 showing in the background a funeral procession led by representatives of the main opponent newspapers of Walpole, in the foreground a bonfire fed by a satyr, on the left Walpole laughing; with engraved inscriptions, and with letterpress titles and text in two columns, and with two vertical segments of type ornaments. ([London], Webb: 1742)
- Production date
- 1742
- Dimensions
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Height: 205 millimetres (etching)
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Height: 510 millimetres (printed area)
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Width: 330 millimetres (etching)
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Width: 368 millimetres (printed area)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- During 1742, many important constituencies gave instructions to their representatives in respect of their conduct in Parliament. London desired of its Members "to postpone every other consideration; particularly the supplies for the service of the ensuing year, till they had renewed the Secret Committee of Inquiry into the conduct of Walpole". Both Bristol and Nottingham tried to undermine this instruction with their own instructions. (see BM Satires 2577)
The broadside here reproduces the words of two MPs in Parliament, defending Sir Robert Walpole.
The etching is altered, previously used in the broadside "The funeral of faction" (BM Satires 2487) as a reply to "London's conduct" (BM Satires 2577)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.3713
