Excise in triumph [graphic].

Description

Title: Excise in triumph [graphic].
Published / Created: [1733]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
2nd state with variant verse, as described in British Museum catalogue.
One line of text below image burnished from plate.
Four lines of verse below image: The grenadier seems such a furious blade ...
Key to persons, emblems and buildings within image on either side of verse.
Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Trade -- Emblem of trade -- Westminster Hall -- St. James's Palace -- British lion -- Unicorns -- Wooden shoes: reference to slogan: No slavery, no excise, no wooden shoes -- Grenadiers -- Bills: excise -- Taxes: excise -- Standing armies -- Military uniforms: grenadier guards -- 'Interest.'
Imperfect, trimmed to design with loss of publication information and plate number.
Provenance: Peter Murray Hill, Chelsea, London ; Nov., 1964 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 18.9 x 21.1 cm, on sheet 20 x 22 cm
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1733
Etchings England London 1733
Material: etching with roulette in blue ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Subjects: Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1733
England > London > 1733

Access: Public
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