Details

Subject(s)

• Caricature [Browse]
• City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Processions—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Spectators—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Public officers—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]

Caricaturist

• Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811 [Browse]

Notes

• Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
• Depiction: Aldermen and Mace-bearers, his worship the Mayor, with his chain, and his dignified deportment, and his following of puffed-up provincial big-wigs are shown filing in solemn state past the pump, the Town-hall, and the stocks, to the Church vest.
• Signed in plate, lower left: "Mr. H. Bunbury del.".
• Signed in plate, lower right: "Etched by T. Rowlandson".

Source acquisition

Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.

References

Grego I, p. 366-368 (reproduced)

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