The Borough Mongers Strangled in the Tower
Thomas Rowlandson British
Publisher Thomas Tegg British
Subject Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet British
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Sir Francis Burdett stands in a stone archway, gripping the necks of "borough-mongers" in each hand. The man at right has a paper in his pocket that says, "Burrows in Cornwall Bought an Sold Apply to" and he holds a bag of "Extortion Money" while a bag inscribed "Bribery and Corruption" drops from his other hand. The other man has a paper in his pocket that says, "Rotten Bourough to be Disposed of" and has dropped money bags inscribed "Rapine" and "Drainings from the hard hand of the industrious Poor." Another man lies on the ground at right.
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