Detail of 'The Westminster Election' 1788 Size:medium Watts' cartoons poked fun at

Watts' cartoons poked fun at social climbers

Surely the purr-fect gift

The newly centralised Bank of England was the largest and most powerful financial undertaking in the City of London

Horses bolt as a carriage and rider nearly collide

Measures 90mm in height

Detail of 'The Westminster Election' 1788 Size:medium Watts' cartoons poked fun atDetail of 'The Westminster Election' by Robert Dighton. A lively melee with three society figures and a crowd of caricatured citizens, some wearing election favours, waving flags, etc through which two carriages fight their way while a pickpocket works on a victim in the foreground.