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Object Type
Museum number: 1872,0608.200
Title: Object: Representation of the election of Members of Parliament for Westminster. 1820
Description: A reissue of No. 13006, by Scharf, on the Westminster Election, perfunctorily adapted to 1820: the date in the title is altered from '1818' to '1820', that of the publication line to 'March 1820'. The inscriptions are much as before except for the two placards on the state of the poll: that for Westminster is blank, that for the City (see No. 13706) is as in 1818 except that the last name is altered from 'Atkins' to 'Bridges'. Three placards held out on the hustings are 'Burdett', 'Hobhouse', 'Lamb'. Burdett and Hobhouse were returned on the 15th day (25 March); they stood as Radical Reformers and victims of Ministers. Lamb stood as a Whig without Ministerial support; he was 446 behind Hobhouse. 1820 Etching and aquatint, hand-coloured
Producer name: Print made by: George Scharf; Print made by: Robert Havell I; Published by: Ackermann
School/style
Production date: 1820
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; aquatint; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 401 millimetres; Width: 515 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: (Description from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949)
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Associated with: John Atkins; Associated with: Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet; Associated with: Major John Cartwright; Associated with: Sir William Curtis; Associated with: George Bridges; Associated with: Henry "Orator" Hunt; Associated with: Douglas Kinnaird; Associated with: John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton; Associated with: George Lamb; Associated with: Capt Sir Murray Maxwell; Associated with: Sir Samuel Romilly; Associated with: John Thomas Thorp; Associated with: Robert Waithman; Associated with: Thomas Wilson; Associated with: Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet
Associated places: Associated with: London
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1872
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1872,0608.200

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