Sujet

'Mars and Venus, or Sir Cecil chastised', 1784. Artist: Samuel Collings

Légende

'Mars and Venus, or Sir Cecil chastised', 1784. Sir Cecil Wray stands between a Chelsea Pensioner and a servant-maid. One of many satires on Wray's unpopular election proposals to abolish Chelsea Hospital and tax employers of maid-servants.

Date

1784

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Notre référence

HRM19A95_021

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

49,9Mo (2,7Mo) / 41,9cm x 29,8cm / 4951 x 3525 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior building buildings London England people job hat politics finance occupation clothes color colour aggression attack dress century profession brush pensioner tax concept outside servant apron politician taxation OAP 18th century Chelsea Eighteenth Century Kensington and Chelsea statesman Guildhall Library & Art Gallery Chelsea Pensioner register office TGN wooden leg Cecil Wray satire Samuel Samuel Collings;Collings Cecil Wray Samuel Collings Sir Cecil Wray Collings Samuel