Title

A detail from 'Westminster Election of 1788'. Artist: Robert Dighton

Caption

A detail from 'Westminster Election of 1788'. An election-day crowd in Covent Garden. A market seller with his donkey is weighing out his goods with a pair of weighing scales. A young boy helps himself from one of the baskets, while another eats the fruit he has collected in his hat. Two men in the crowd behind the seller wear hats with a candidate's name in them. To the far left is a fashionably dressed young lady with her pet dog.
Museum of London

Date

1788

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Museum of London

Reference

HRM19A82_493

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,4Mb (4,4Mb) / 15,5in x 12,6in / 4652 x 3785 (300dpi)

Keywords

animal London England female women woman people male boy boys crowd job man men hat politics dog guy occupation clothes weighing scales color colour eating dress Covent Garden location century profession donkey lady concept stealing chaos shawl street seller election 18th century Eighteenth Century City of Westminster Museum of London street trader TGN satire Robert Dighton Dighton Robert satire