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John Wilkes Esq.r. Member of Parliament for the County of Middlesex. Friend to Libery, a Lover of his King, opposer of Ministerial Tyranny & Defender of his Country._
R.E Pine pinxt. Kitcheman delin.
London Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map adn Printseller, N.o53 Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1768]
Fine mezzotint, 355 x 250mm (14 x 10"), with large margins. On 18th century watermarked paper. Very faint foxing.
Three-quarter length portrait of John Wilkes (1725 - 1797), seated at a table wearing a coat with braiding and large cuffs, and frilled cravat, powdered hair brushed back, left hand on his thigh, right hand holding quill poised over sheets of paper, looking up to left at a classical statuette of a female figure holding a mirror and large shield decorated with a shining sun, a volume labelled 'Sydney on Gov', a letter addressed 'To Hump,,y Cotes Esqr London' and a scroll labelled 'Magna Charta' on the table, and a plaque with a bust of Hampden leaning against it to lower left. Wilkes was first elected a Member of Parliament in 1757. In the Middlesex election dispute, he fought for the right of his voters, rather than the House of Commons, to determine their representatives. In 1768, angry protests of his supporters were suppressed in the Massacre of St George's Fields. In 1771, he was instrumental in obliging the government to concede the right of printers to publish verbatim accounts of parliamentary debates. In 1776, he introduced the first bill for parliamentary reform in the British Parliament. The painting by Robert Edge Pine (1730-1788) is in the Parliamentary Art Collection.
CS ENA 161 i of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68784] £360.00
R.E Pine pinxt. Kitcheman delin.
London Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map adn Printseller, N.o53 Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1768]
Fine mezzotint, 355 x 250mm (14 x 10"), with large margins. On 18th century watermarked paper. Very faint foxing.
Three-quarter length portrait of John Wilkes (1725 - 1797), seated at a table wearing a coat with braiding and large cuffs, and frilled cravat, powdered hair brushed back, left hand on his thigh, right hand holding quill poised over sheets of paper, looking up to left at a classical statuette of a female figure holding a mirror and large shield decorated with a shining sun, a volume labelled 'Sydney on Gov', a letter addressed 'To Hump,,y Cotes Esqr London' and a scroll labelled 'Magna Charta' on the table, and a plaque with a bust of Hampden leaning against it to lower left. Wilkes was first elected a Member of Parliament in 1757. In the Middlesex election dispute, he fought for the right of his voters, rather than the House of Commons, to determine their representatives. In 1768, angry protests of his supporters were suppressed in the Massacre of St George's Fields. In 1771, he was instrumental in obliging the government to concede the right of printers to publish verbatim accounts of parliamentary debates. In 1776, he introduced the first bill for parliamentary reform in the British Parliament. The painting by Robert Edge Pine (1730-1788) is in the Parliamentary Art Collection.
CS ENA 161 i of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68784] £360.00