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Thomas Rowlandson
1756-1827
The Norther'n candidate for Westminster
Published
[London] : Pubd. May 28th, 1784, by T. Corneille, Bruton Street, [1784]
etching
image: 224 x 327 mm; plate mark: 245 x 348 mm; sheet: 263 x 364 mm
Peel 2504
Notes
Printmaker and artist from descriptions of the second state. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 6, no. 6602.
"A pencil-sketch for this is in the Print Room (201. c. 6/44 b). A note on the print attributes the design to Lord James Manners."--Curatorial comments, British Museum online catalog.
Second state, with 'Scola' inside speech bubble corrected to 'Scotia, ' is entitled 'Petitioning candidate for Westminster'.
"A pencil-sketch for this is in the Print Room (201. c. 6/44 b). A note on the print attributes the design to Lord James Manners."--Curatorial comments, British Museum online catalog.
Second state, with 'Scola' inside speech bubble corrected to 'Scotia, ' is entitled 'Petitioning candidate for Westminster'.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Fox, with a fox's head and brush and dressed in tartan kilt and plaid, gallops (right to left) on a shaggy pony along the road from Kirkwall to London. He waves his cap, saying, "From the Heath covered Mountains of Scola [sic] I come." The background is a mountainous landscape with a lake on which is a boat. A signpost (left) points (right) 'To Kirkwall' and (left) 'To London'. Fox had been returned for the Orkney boroughs in case he should be defeated for Westminster. Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Associated names
Manners, James, Lord, artist.
Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints
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