Locusts [graphic].

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Title: Locusts [graphic].
Published / Created: [1748]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A group of eight locusts is gathered in the foreground; each is numbered and identified in the key below image. A long procession of other locusts in the background is walking on Whitehall by the Banqueting House to Holbein's Gate, while a swarm of more locusts descends on the Banqueting House. Some of them landed on the trees leaving them denuded
Description: Title from item.
Text below title: And [the] Locusts rested in all [the] Coasts of Egypt ...
Key below image, in four columns: 1. Found at St. James's; 2. found in Staffordshire; 3. found in Bloomsbury; 4. found in Lincolns Innfields; 5. the fellon to the fourth; 6. a female locust found at Yarmouth; 7. found near Huntingon; 8. found in Worcestershire.
Watermarks: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Provenance: Alan Thomas for W.S. Lewis, Christie's October 21, 1965, lot 33; November 1965; Major Sir Charles Blackett Collection.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 19.8 x 32.3 cm, on sheet 24 x 38 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1748
Etchings England London 1748
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Whitehall (London, England)
Banqueting House (London, England)
Holbein's Gate (London, England)
Subject (Name): William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803
Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754
Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765
Subjects: William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765 > Caricatures and cartoons
Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771 > Caricatures and cartoons
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765 > Caricatures and cartoons
Whitehall (London, England)
Banqueting House (London, England)
Holbein's Gate (London, England)
England > 1748
England > London > 1748

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