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A canal meeting   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank

Published by: Allen & West
Title
A canal meeting
Description
English: Plate 68 to 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ..... England & South Wales'. Six men are seated at a small rectangular table, the chairman (left) in an arm-chair on a low platform. He points angrily at the 'Plan of the Intended Canal', displayed by the man on his left. His vis-à-vis, an elderly parson, reads near-sightedly a 'Report of the Engineer respecting the [in]tended canal'. A dog sits behind his chair. Two others have expressions of sour determination. The sixth, in back view, rests a gouty foot on a cushion. 4 March 1797
Hand-coloured etching
Date 1797
date QS:P571,+1797-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 183 millimetres
Width: 241 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1927,0308.136
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

Leicester is said to be one of the places much afflicted by 'Junction Mania' or 'Canal Madness'. Cf. BMSats 8523, 9135.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1927-0308-136
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