Yale Center for British Art
Creator:
Anti-Corn Law League
Title:
[Campaign card advertising the free trade movement, and the Free Trade Star].
Published / Created:
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1844]
Physical Description:
1 campaign card : color illustrations ; 15 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
HF2043 .A58 1844 Box
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:14498913
Notes:
Title supplied by cataloger.

The Free Trade Star is an 8 pointed star composed of Cobden, Bright, Gibson, Bowring, Thompson, W. J. Fox, Wilson and Villiers. The main proponents of the movement are listed within the star. At the foot of the card is a poem celebrating the benefits of Free Trade.

"The league is of no party."
Subject Terms:
Campaign literature -- Great Britain. | Anti-Corn-Law League. | Corn laws (Great Britain) | Corn laws (Great Britain) -- Poetry. | Free trade -- Great Britain. | Tariff -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain. | Great Britain -- History -- 1800–1850.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- Hand-colored -- [approximately 1844] | Ephemera. | Poems.
Contributors:
Bowring, John, 1792–1872. | Bright, John, 1811–1889. | Cobden, Richard, 1804–1865. | Fox, William Johnson, 1786–1864. | Gibson, Thomas Milner, 1806–1884. | Thompson, T. Perronet (Thomas Perronet), 1783–1869 | Villiers, Charles Pelham, 1802–1898. | Wilson, George, 1808–1870.