Sujet

Election fair, Copenhagen Fields, London, 1795. Artist: James Gillray

Légende

Election fair, Copenhagen Fields, London, 1795. 'I tell you, citizens, we mean to new-dress the Constitution and turn it, and set a new nap on it' Shakespeare'. On a platform to the right is a gesticulating figure, over whose head another, grinning, is holding a green umbrella. Another man is holding a sheet inscribed Resolution of the London Correspond Society. The two men standing up in the crowd are Citizen Richard Lee (on the left), holding one of his own tracts and John Thelwall (in butcher's apron), who shakes his fist.

Date

1795

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/City of London : The London Archives

Notre référence

HRM19A99_048

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

22,0Mo (1,5Mo) / 28,0cm x 19,7cm / 3306 x 2323 (300dpi)

Mots clés

London England people male crowds man men politics country guy listening British English color colour location umbrella century platform Britain speaking speaker gesticulating cartoon radical dais 18th century Eighteenth Century Guildhall Library & Art Gallery Copenhagen Fields election fair electioneering Islington orator Radicalism TGN John Thelwall Richard Lee oration etching caricature satire John Richard Lee James Gillray Thelwall Gillray James