Westminster election 1780 / E--g inv., British Cartoon Print

Print shows Lord Lincoln standing on the right of St. Paul's portico, Charles James Fox standing in the center with Britannia and the British lion, and on the left, James Young, acting as proxy for Admiral Rodney, with Neptune, during the Westminster election; a large crowd fills the foreground.

Inscribed in ink at top: N.B. This is the original plate - out of the "Strawberry Hill Collection" etched by Lord Townsend who sometimes assumed the cognomen of "Earwig" - this plate was afterwards more finished - see opposite.
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5699
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 775.