Gillray (James). Middlesex Election, London: H. Humphreys, August 7th, 1804

Gillray (James). Middlesex Election, London: H. Humphreys, August 7th, 1804, etching on wove with contemporary hand colouring, contemporary ink manuscript annotations below title, narrow margins, trimmed to top margin with no loss to image, a few repaired tears, 505 x 350 mm (Quantity: 1) BM Satires 10264. Sir Francis Burdett, scarcely caricatured, sits in a carriage on the way to the hustings, past a large cheering mob. The radical politician Horne Tooke drives the carriage. Streams of election literature slip out of his pocket. Amongst the politicians pulling the carriage is Charles James Fox dressed as a ragged chimney sweeper, the Duke of Norfolk and Duke of Northumberland in aprons and the Duke of Bedford as a farmer. Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hasting stands in the foreground, beating a drum. Behind him is a lamp-post from which hangs a rat labelled 'No Ministerial Rats'.