The British Atlas 1767 [graphic].

Description

Title: The British Atlas 1767 [graphic].
Published / Created: [1767?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title etched at bottom of image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Ministers deserting East India reform, December 9, 1766 -- Maps: map of East India -- Coalitions: Bute and Chatham -- Personifications: Popularity -- Reform of the East India Company as a windmill -- Mythology: Atlas -- Hercules -- Personifications: Folly as an East Indian -- Gout: gouty shoes -- East Indians -- Crutches -- Emblems: Dutch East India Company as a windmill.
Identification below title in contemporary hand: Ld. Chatham.
Provenance: Parsons; February 1933; From an album of 12 prints with the armorial bookplate of Thomas Philip Robinson, Earl de Grey, 1781-1859.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 23.2 x 29.3 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1767
Etchings England London 1767
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
East India Company.
Subject (Topic): Globes
Subjects: Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 > Caricatures and cartoons
East India Company
Globes
England > 1767
England > London > 1767
18th century
De Grey, Thomas Philip De Grey, Earl, 1781-1859 > Ownership

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