Collection Items
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Photo, Print, DrawingA learned coalition 1 print : etching ; plate mark 251 x 175 mm, sheet 266 x 200 mm. | "Burke stands in profile to the right dressed as a Jesuit. He clasps to his breast a small female figure or doll, wearing a hat with a feather, perhaps intended to represent Little Red Riding Hood..." (Source: George)
- Contributor: Dent, William, Active - Dent, William
- Date: 1783-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingPro bono publico - the public cluster in terrorem 1 print : engraving. | Print shows a grapevine twisted about a gibbet from which hangs a pendulous bunch of grapes with the faces of various British ministers, the most prominent being that of Charles James Fox, with Lord North slightly lower on the left and Edmund Burke on the right, at the top is the Earl of Derby, and at bottom is Sam...
- Contributor: Dent, William, Active - Dent, William
- Date: 1784-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingConstitutional Club 1 print : engraving ; 26 x 33.5 (sheet) | Print of satire on the Westminster by-election of 1788 shows five men carving a fox on a table as William Pitt carries a coin-filled gravy boat inscribed "Mint sauce, Constitutional restorative" and King George III follows with a jug of "Cheltenham water, Constitutional restorative." (Source: George)
- Contributor: Dent, William, Active - Dent, William
- Date: 1788-01-01