The Junto in the dumps: or the Day after the Election
[England] : [publisher not specified], [1780]
Not in George BM Satires; a copy of this print described in the British Museum's online catalog is inscribed in ink with the date "12. Septr. 1780."
Two lines of engraved text below image: From no Wanton or Licentious motive but under a sense of Abuse and Illiberal Insult received from Certain Individuals (who have lately made themselves notoriously conspicuous by Projecting innovations upon the Freedom of Election) this Plate is presented to the public by The Authors.
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Political satire: four men seated round a table looking at the results of the election; the man at far left has the long ears of an ass(?), while the man seated at right has the head of a boar (possibly intended to represent candidate Edward Bacon); two men stand weeping behind them and others stand in the doorway, all exclaiming over their losses; at the right a devil looks up from a trapdoor in the floor and exclaims "All plumpers for me". The figures are numbered within the image and are shown with various documents inscribed with text; on the wall behind the table are two framed pictures: the one at left shows a man in irons standing in front of a gallows and has a caption reading "A plumper for Ba-con"; the one at right shows a man waving his hat and exclaiming "No bribes" and "Huzza" and reads "A plumper for Harbord".