Title

City election candidates of 1812. Artist: Anon

Caption

City election candidates of 1812. 'A View of the Starting Post and List of the Horses and their Riders who Started for the City Plate October 5th 1812'. Jockeys with the seven candidates for the four City of London seats, represented as horses with human heads. The candidates were: Curtis, Shaw, Combe, Atkins, Waithman, Wood and Hunter, the first four named being returned.

Date

1812

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Reference

HRM19B00_265

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

22,2Mb (1,1Mb) / 10,4in x 8,3in / 3125 x 2480 (300dpi)

Keywords

animal England people male sport man men animals horses horse riding rider jockey politics flag flags country guy British English color colour location century banner city of london Britain races sportsman horse racing horseback georgian horse race cartoon candidate standard politician 19th century nineteenth century political event speech bubble statesman Guildhall Library & Art Gallery general election TGN Harvey Christian Combe John Atkins Sir Matthew Wood Sir William Curtis James horse-race horse-racing etching caricature satire Robert Waithman starting post Sir James Shaw Anon Anonymous John William Curtis Robert Shaw C Sir William C Williams;Williams Sir James William Curtis Atkins Waithman Combe Harvey Christian James Shaw