File:(Henry Flood.) (BM 1868,0808.5327).jpg

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[Henry Flood.]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
[Henry Flood.]
Description
English: A bust-portrait of Flood in profile to the left. Two other heads in profile to the left are below and behind him on the extreme right. As a background there is a series of four gibbets (right), a body hanging from each, and a firing-party (left) of three minute figures firing at persons at close range. c. May 1784
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Depicted people Representation of: Right Hon Henry Flood
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 95 millimetres
Width: 62 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5327
Notes

Richard Bull has added the note 'very like' to an impression in his collection of 'Honorary Engravers'. (1931,0413.166)

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) For the complicated history of the election for Seaford, 1784-6, see Oldfield, 'Representative History of Great Britain', 1816, v. 451; the writer states that he himself introduced Flood to the borough. Flood, having paid £4,000 to the Duke of Chandos for a seat for Winchester on a by-election in September 1783, was not returned at the general election on account of a misunderstanding with the Duke. He was one of twenty-six candidates who offered themselves for Seaford between March 1784 and March 1785; he was twice defeated owing to manipulations of the poll by the returning officer; on a third election, though not returned, a committee of the House of Commons on 13 Mar. 1786, declared him elected. See Luders, 'Reports on Controverted Elections', 1790, iii. 32 ff. In 1784 he was a Pittite, having opposed Fox's India Bill, but soon went into Opposition.

By the same artist as BMSat 6606, probably an amateur. See also BMSat 6607.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5327
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