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AltRefNoGardner Box 62 No 59a
TitleWit's last stake or the cobling voters and abject canvassers
DescriptionShowing Peter Street. The Duchess of Devonshire is canvassing a cobbler. She is sitting on Charles Fox's knee. Fox is giving his right hand to a ragged man, to whom Sam House is holding up a tankard. Drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson. Satire on the Westminster election.
Date1784
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Persons
CodePersonNameDates
NA774Devonshire; Georgiana Spencer Cavendish (1757-1806); Duchess of1757-1806
NA541Fox; Charles James (1749-1806)1749-1806
NA377Rowlandson; Thomas (1756-1827); artist & caricaturist1756-1827
NA781House; Sam
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PL1345Peter St/St Margaret, Westminster
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