Sujet

'A smoking club', House of Commons, London, 1793. Artist: Anon

Légende

'A smoking club', House of Commons, London, 1793. Depicting the House of Commons burlesqued as a smoking club whose quarrelsome members - Fox, Dundas, Pitt, etc. are puffing smoke at each other. The Speaker, in the manner of a tavern club chairman, is sitting at the head of the table.

Date

1793

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Notre référence

HRM19A94_353

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,0Mo (2,5Mo) / 44,8cm x 28,0cm / 5291 x 3303 (300dpi)

Mots clés

building buildings London England people male interior indoors man men politics drinking guy smoke smoky smoking palace table Westminster prime minister century Houses of Parliament inside club speaker furniture House of Commons B&W MONOCHROME politician Puffing black & white black and white B W aristocracy aristocrat famous people 18th century Eighteenth Century Palace of Westminster statesman City of Westminster Guildhall Library & Art Gallery burlesque gentleman's club TGN Charles James Fox Henry Dundas William Pitt The Younger etching caricature portrait Anon Anonymous James William Henry Pitt James Gillray;Gillray William Pitt the Younger Fox Charles James Charles Fox Dundas 1st Viscount Melville First Viscount Melville Viscount Melville