print;
satirical print;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- J,1.26
- Description
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Satire on the defeat of the Excise Bill, a version of the frontispiece to Winer's 'Excise Sermon' (BM Satires 1922). In this case Walpole says "No matter it shall pass" and a number of different members are represented according to the key below.
Etching
- Production date
- 1733 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 229 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 158 millimetres (trimmed to image)
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- Curator's comments
- The members of parliament represented are:
A Coventry - John Neale or Adolphus Oughton (Neale voted for the Bill in spite of his constituents' opposition and lost his seat at the 1734 election; Oughton, who also favoured the Bill, abstained from voting and was to hold his seat)
B St Albans - John Merrill
C. Berkshire - either Winchcomb Packer or John Stonhouse (who in the event was too ill to vote)
D Nottingham - either John Stanhope or Borlase Warren
E Ripon - William Aislabie
F Kent - Roger Meredith (who, in the event, changed his mind when it came to the vote and supported Walpole)
G Gloucester - Benjamin Bathurst
H Rye - Phillips Gybbon (according to Romney Sedgwick ("History of Parliament", 1970) he did not vote against the Excise Bill but said that he was satisfied when it was dropped; however, a contemporary list (see 1868,0808.3557) includes him among those who voted against)
I Canterbury - William Hardres (he is recorded as being too ill to vote; the other MP for Canterbury, Thomas Hales, voted for the Bill)
K Wigan - Peter Bold
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: A Sermon preached, on a very extraordinary occasion at a noted chapel in Westminster, on Wednesday the 14th of March 1732 (i.e. 1733 N.S.)
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- J,1.26