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British Museum (Museum number 1868,0808.4407) / https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collectio…IMAGE INFORMATION

John Wilkes's coat of arms

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

June 1775

Primary Source Reference:

Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 14v

Notes:

Du Simitière may have had a copy of this broadside praising John Wilkes (1725-1797), the British radical, journalist, and politician, showing an imaginary coat-of-arms incorporating symbols of Wilkes's political virtues, with an etching partly printed in red.