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A Smoking Club.

A Smoking Club.

Ja.s Gillray del.t 1793.
[George Humphrey, c.1822.]
Coloured etching, watermark J. Whatman 1822. Sheet 200 x 225mm (8 x 9¾"). Trimmed, losing publication line.
The Speaker Henry Addington sits above Pitt, Fox, Dundas and Sheridan, sitting at a table with tankard and punch bowl, all smoking long pipes. A burlesque of the House of Commons as a smoking-club, a plebeian gathering of quarrelsome members puffing smoke at each other.
BM Satires 8303.
[Ref: 54574]  £130.00


 

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