1807 Yorkshire General Election and Anti-Slavery : a good pearlware jug by Don Pottery printed in

1807 Yorkshire General Election and Anti-Slavery : a good pearlware jug by Don Pottery printed in black and well decorated in colour with a simplified version of Gilray’s cartoon of the horse breaker and pugilist Mellish centred by an inscribed orange ground cartouche, the underside with painted mark, 188mm *The contested election of 1807 saw success for William Wilberforce and Lord Milton, (whose father Earl Fitzwilliam had provided the services of his employee Mellish), against Henry Lascelles. Mellish was effectively brought in as an ‘enforcer’ to help secure votes for Milton and Lascelles in an attempt to oust the anti-slavery campaigner Wilberforce. Fitzwilliam’s accounts for the election show the election cost him the prodigious sum of £98,604. See Printed English Pottery, plates 267 and 268 Illustrated