print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1937,1108.88
- Title
- Object: Citizen M.C.Browne. Delegate from the Sheffield & Leeds Constl. Soc. to the British Convention
- Description
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Design in an oval. A bust portrait in profile to the right and on a dark background, simulating a cameo, of a stout middle-aged and well-dressed man wearing spectacles. Beneath the title: 'Delegate from the Sheffield & Leeds Constl Socs to the British Convention'. Above the oval: 'Dulce et decorum est pro Patria mori'. 1794
Etching with some stipple
- Production date
- 1794
- Dimensions
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Height: 126 millimetres
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Width: 90 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)
William Cammage gave evidence at Thomas Hardy's trial that he had taken £10 from Sheffield and £10 from Leeds to Edinburgh for Matthew Campbell Brown (their delegate) apparently for his defence. 'State Trials', xxiv. 589-90. Said by Paton to have introduced most of the 'obnoxious republican phrases' of the Scottish Convention in 1793, but see Meikle, 'Scotland and the French Revolution', p. 144 n. Apparently one of those who were arrested but discharged without trial. Probably the author of the pamphlet, 'A leaf out of Burke's Book: being an epistle to that Rt. Hon. gentleman in reply to his letter to a Noble Lord, on the subject of his Pension', 1796 [cf. BMSat 8788]. See BMSat 8506.
'Collection', No. 186. Kay, No. cexxxi
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1937
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1937,1108.88