The stature of a great man, or, The English colossus [graphic]

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Title: The stature of a great man, or, The English colossus [graphic]
Alternative Title: English colossus
Creator: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, printmaker
Published / Created: to [the] act, 1740.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Seven lines of verse in two columns below title: Why man, he doth bestride [the] narrow world ... Shakespeare.
Five lines of text titled "Description" below verse: The Colossus at Rhodes, a stature of [the] Sun 70 cubits high ...
Temporary local subject terms: Cuba -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare -- Colossus -- Cardinal Fleury as a fox.
Watermark: countermark I V.
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 32.6 x 19.9 cm, on sheet 38 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1740
Etchings England London 1740
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
Subjects: Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1740
England > London > 1740

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