2016.373: The Drum Major of Sedition

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2016.373

People

Thomas Rowlandson, British (London, England 1756 - 1827 London, England)
Published by Elizabeth Dacheray, British

Title

The Drum Major of Sedition

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1784

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/357047

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

image: 24.8 × 22.2 cm (9 3/4 × 8 3/4 in.)
sheet: 35.2 × 25 cm (13 7/8 × 9 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: in plate, lower left: Pubd. March 29 1784 by Mrs. Dacheray St. James's Street
• inscription: in plate, below image: THE DRUM MAJOR OF SEDITION. / All Gentlemen and others Electors for Westminster who are ready and willing to Surrender their rights and those of their / Fellow Citizens to Secret Influence and the Lords of the Bedchamber let them repair to the Prerogative Standard lately erected at the / Common Coffee House where they shall be kindly receiv'd untill their Services are no longer Wanted. This Gentleman is the last time of Asking as / we are determined to Abolish the power of the House of Commons, and in future be governed by Prerogative, as they are in France / and Turkey. / Gentlemen the Ambition of the enemy is now ardent. Has he not within these few days past Stole the Great Seal of England, while the / Chancellor was taking a Bottle with a fefmale favorite, as all great men do. I am informed Gent.n that the Enemy now assumes Regal / Authority and by Virtue of the Great Seal (which he Stole) is creating of Peers and granting of Pensions. A Most shamefull Abuse Gent.m / of that Instrument. If you assist us to pull down the House of Commons, every person who hears me has a chance of becoming a Great Man / if he is happy enough to hit the fancy of Lord B-- of Mr. J--n ... Huzza. God Save the King.
• inscription: verso, graphite: center: dup

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Jsrael Ber Neumann, Berlin, Munich, and New York, by descent; to Elsa Schmid Neumann, his wife, 1961, by descent; to Peter G. Neumann, their son, Palo Alto, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

BM Satires 6474

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Peter G. Neumann

Accession Year

2016

Object Number

2016.373

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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