Constitutional Club, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon

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Constitutional Club, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon

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Print of satire on the Westminster by-election of 1788 shows five men carving a fox on a table as William Pitt carries a coin-filled gravy boat inscribed "Mint sauce, Constitutional restorative" and King George III follows with a jug of "Cheltenham water, Constitutional restorative." (Source: George)

Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum / by Mary Dorothy George, v. 6, no. 7372
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

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01/01/1788
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Dent, William, active 1741-1780, artist
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Library of Congress
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