The European race humbly inscrib'd to [the] politicians of Great Britain, France, Spain, Russia, Turky [sic], Germany, Italy, Holland and Corsica, by their most obedient servant, an Englishman. [graphic]

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Title: The European race humbly inscrib'd to [the] politicians of Great Britain, France, Spain, Russia, Turky [sic], Germany, Italy, Holland and Corsica, by their most obedient servant, an Englishman. [graphic]
Creator: Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created: publish'd according to act of Parliament, Sep. 4, 1738.
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Attributed to C. Moseley from another state. See Stephens.
State without printmaker's name, the figure of Pope in the image, and with the later publication date. See Stephens.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Four lines of quotation from Bible below title: [I return]ed and saw under the Sun, that the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong ... Ecclesiastes the 9th, verse the 11th.
Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet.
Mounted, mounted again to 34 x 48 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Truman Sale 1906.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 27.6 x 35.6 cm
Edition: [State with figure of Pope].
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 738.09.04.01+

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1738
Etchings England London 1738
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1738
England > London > 1738

Access And Usage Rights

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Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Identifiers

Orbis Record: 8865938
Object ID (OID): 10700210