A rowdy dinner of British political radicals at John Horne Tooke's house in Wimbledon: Tooke and Burdett wear bonnets rouges. Coloured etching by Thomaso Scrutiny (Samuel De Wilde?), 1808.

  • De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832.
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[1 April 1808]
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A rowdy dinner of British political radicals at John Horne Tooke's house in Wimbledon: Tooke and Burdett wear bonnets rouges. Coloured etching by Thomaso Scrutiny (Samuel De Wilde?), 1808. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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One of the Sunday gatherings of radicals at John Horne Tooke's house in Wimbledon. On the left William Bosville has a miniature guillotine which he is about to use to decapitate a dog representing John Bull. In his pocket is a pamphlet entitled "Killing no murder" (by Saxby, 1657) recalling the radical pamphlets and broadsides of Richard "Citizen" Lee active in the 1790s. Parson Este, wearing a cassock over a harlequin costume, dances on the table

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[London] ([Leadenhall Street]) : [S. Tipper], [1 April 1808]

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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 17.8 x 30.4 cm

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Diversions of Purley. Vide page 119. Thomaso Scrutiny esq delt & scul. The phrase "Diversions of Purley" refers to J. Horne Tooke's book "[Greek] Epea pteroenta, [Roman] or The diversions of Purley", which in turn refers to the house at Purley, Surrey, of William Tooke, whose surname John Horne adopted in 1782 to become John Horne Tooke

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British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1947, vol. 8, no. 10976

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Wellcome Collection 38441i

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