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Glorious return of the pride of Westminster and his flunkey

Glorious return of the pride of Westminster and his flunkey
 1830

Medium
hand-coloured etching
Measurements
20.8 × 32.3 cm (image) 23.8 × 34.5 cm (image and text) 25.6 × 36.5 cm (sheet, trimmed to platemark)
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
BM Satires 16210
Printing/Publishing
published by Thomas McLean, London
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: W Heath
printed in ink l.r.: Pub Aug 1830 by T .McLean (c in superscript) 26 Haymarket
printed in ink l.l.-l.r.: GLORIOUS RETURN _of the Pride of Westminster and his Flunkey (he Pride Westminster Flunk underlined)
printed in ink u.l.-u.r.: Election Squibs & Crackers No (o in superscript) 6__ Covent Garden Saturday 31st (st in superscript) July 1830- Transit Gloria Mundi
printed in ink (in image) (in speech bubble) u.l.: our friends seem (eem underlined) to be giving us Turnips-Cam
printed in ink (in image) (in speech bubbles) u.r.: No Corn Bill / you are good for / nothing
Accession Number
1958.4-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1926
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire Law, Civics and Protest
Subjects (specific)
members of Parliament political cartoons politicians protesting satire (artistic device) vegetables