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A Perspective and Political View of the Timber-Yard at the L-e [Limehouse].The Saw Mill.
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾"), with margins.
A satirical scene showing a lawyer sawing through the 'Magna Carta' and 'Bill of Rights' in front of a saw mill while John Wilkes looks on from the left. Charles Dingley, a speculator and mechanic, stood against Wilkes in the 1769 election. He patented a sawmill, built in Limehouse, which rioting sawyers pulled down in 1768, after which an Act was 'for punishing persons destroying mills' was passed.
BM Satires 4278.
[Ref: 54383] £130.00
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾"), with margins.
A satirical scene showing a lawyer sawing through the 'Magna Carta' and 'Bill of Rights' in front of a saw mill while John Wilkes looks on from the left. Charles Dingley, a speculator and mechanic, stood against Wilkes in the 1769 election. He patented a sawmill, built in Limehouse, which rioting sawyers pulled down in 1768, after which an Act was 'for punishing persons destroying mills' was passed.
BM Satires 4278.
[Ref: 54383] £130.00