Village Politicians

Steel engraving published by the artist and engraver, originally in 1814, this impression c1850. Depicts a lively debate between a group of village men. The original oil Village Politicians exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1806. Wilkie was an important Scottish genre painter. Raimbach was an English line-engraver of Swiss descent. In 1812 he began to engrave some of Wilkie's best pictures. At his death, he held a gold medal awarded for his Village Politicians at the Paris Exhibition of 1814.