4 results filtered with: Crosby, Brass, 1725-1793
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Dignitaries of the City of London receiving official addresses while imprisoned in a cell in the Tower of London. Engraving, 1771.
Date: [1771]Reference: 2804595i- Pictures
The head of John Wilkes, the Lord Mayor Brass Crosby and the recently elected sheriff, Frederick Bull decorated with civic chains pass as meteors through the sky into the mouth of oblivion. Engraving, 1771.
Date: [1 Nov. 1771]Reference: 584757i
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A framed picture falls off a cornice marked 'National Honour'; representing dishonour for Great Britain perceived by the Whigs in the Anglo-Spanish convention on the Falkland Islands. Engraving, 1771.
Date: 1771Reference: 579637i
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Three officers in the City of London Corporation holding different types of sticks ("characteresticks"): Lord Mayor Crosby with a scourge for wheat-speculators; John Wilkes with a Herculean club for defeating corruption; and and a bull representing Frederick Bull, with the sheriff's staff of office. Engraving after S.L., 1772.
S.L., active 1772.Date: [1 Jan. 1772]Reference: 584784i