A rowdy dinner of British political radicals at John Horne Tooke's house in Wimbledon: Tooke and Burdett wear bonnets rouges. Coloured etching by Thomaso Scrutiny (Samuel De Wilde?), 1808.
- De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832.
- Date:
- [1 April 1808]
- Reference:
- 38441i
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One of the Sunday gatherings of radicals at John Horne Tooke's house in Wimbledon. On the left William Bosville has a miniature guillotine which he is about to use to decapitate a dog representing John Bull. In his pocket is a pamphlet entitled "Killing no murder" (by Saxby, 1657) recalling the radical pamphlets and broadsides of Richard "Citizen" Lee active in the 1790s. Parson Este, wearing a cassock over a harlequin costume, dances on the table
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[London] ([Leadenhall Street]) : [S. Tipper], [1 April 1808]
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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 17.8 x 30.4 cm
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Diversions of Purley. Vide page 119. Thomaso Scrutiny esq delt & scul.
The phrase "Diversions of Purley" refers to J. Horne Tooke's book "[Greek] Epea pteroenta, [Roman] or The diversions of Purley", which in turn refers to the house at Purley, Surrey, of William Tooke, whose surname John Horne adopted in 1782 to become John Horne Tooke
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1947, vol. 8, no. 10976
Reference
Wellcome Collection 38441i
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