A canal meeting, Isaac Cruikshank, 1797

Plate 68 to 'eccentric excursions, or. Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance, character and country, in. . England & south wales'. Six men are seated at a small rectangular table, the chairman (left) in an arm-chair on a low platform. He points angrily at the 'plan of the intended canal', displayed by the man on his left. His vis-à-vis, an elderly parson, reads near-sightedly a 'report of the engineer respecting the [in]tended canal'. A dog sits behind his chair. Two others have expressions of sour determination. The sixth, in back view, rests a gouty foot on a cushion. 4 march 1797 hand-coloured etching. Date: 1797. Dimensions: Height: 183 mm; Width: 241 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. A canal meeting (BM 1927,0308.136 1)