William Cobbett as a porcupine with a snake's tail with two taloned devils representing Sir Francis Burdett and John Horne Tooke. Coloured etching by S. De Wilde, 1808.

  • De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832.
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[1 November 1808]
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38456i
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Cobbett is portrayed as a porcupine because he used the pen name Peter Porcupine, publishing Porcupine's gazette in Philadelphia, 1797-1800, and The porcupine in London, 1800-1801

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[London] ([37 Leadenhall Street]) : [S. Tipper], [1 November 1808]

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1 print : etching ; image 17.4 x 31 cm

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The porcupine's den.

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1847, vol. 9, no. 11049

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Wellcome Collection 38456i

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