Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works, with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures and a sketch of his life, times, and contemporaries (1880)
Fox is in the centre of the picture, giving his knee as a seat for his fair advocate, the Duchess of Devonshire, who is resorting to a subterfuge commonly employed as a pre- caution against actions for bribery at elections, by the stall of a cobbler, who happens to be a voter : her Grace has… … wit's last stake, or the cobbling voter and abject canvassers. in payment for the job a handful of sovereigns from her Grace's purse. The scene takes place in Peter Street, and the cobbler's board announces, ' Shoes made and mended by Bob Slichelt, cobbler to her Grace the tramping Duchess.' A…
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 · English wit and humor, Pictorial
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