The_Brentford_Election_(BM_Y,4.574).jpg
Summary
The Brentford Election
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The Brentford Election
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| Description |
English:
Satire on the attack on the Brentford hustings during the Middlesex election in December 1768 by supporters of the ministerial candidate, Sir William Beauchamp Procter. A mob, armed with heavy bludgeons advances under a banner lettered “Liberty and P[rocte]r “; one man better dressed than the rest has a cockade in his hat. Three women are among those attacked: one carrying a child, one an old widow, the other a market woman. A man defending the hustings shouts, “D(amm) you dogs we’ll match you all presently”; two attackers cry “Bring down the Poll Book P[rocter] shall be the Man”. “For a Guinea a Day / Damn Glyn & all his friends”. John Wilkes stands to the right smiling and holding his finger to his nose indicating that there will be trouble. In the background two men rush up some steps to the polling booth.
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| Depicted people | Representation of: John Wilkes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1768 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Prints and Drawings
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| Accession number |
Y,4.574
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| Notes | Wilkes and George Cooke were elected for Middlesex in March 1768; after Cooke's death a by-election was held in December; John Glynn, a supporter of Wilkes, defeated William Beauchamp Proctor. Violence occured at the hustings in Brentford: "Proctor determined to resist Wilkes’s mob, brought his own bravos with him: when they got out of hand, polling was brought to a standstill. Ultimately, Glynn carried it by a majority of over 250." ( http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/constituencies/middlesex , accessed 2 August 2018) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Y-4-574 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Permission
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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