Title

'A perspective and political view of the timber-yard at L-e', 1769. Artist: Anon

Caption

'A perspective and political view of the timber-yard at L-e', 1769. Charles Dingley is sawing through the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights. Dingley, who patented a saw mill in Limehouse, was a rival candidate to John Wilkes in the Middlesex constituency at the general election of 1769.

Date

1769

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Reference

HRM19B00_301

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

18,6Mb (1,1Mb) / 6,9in x 10,4in / 2084 x 3116 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior building buildings London England people male man men politics country law guy British tool English saw sawmill windmill location century Britain document sawing outside georgian legislation B&W cartoon MONOCHROME politician black & white black and white B W 18th century Eighteenth Century speech bubble statesman Tower Hamlets Guildhall Library & Art Gallery Limehouse Magna Carta TGN Charles bill of rights caricature satire engraving Charles Dingley Anon Anonymous Great Charter Dingley