A skit on Britain [graphic]

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Description

Title
A skit on Britain [graphic]
Creator
Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, printmaker
Contributor
Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, publisher.
Published / Created
[1741]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Sold at [the] Blackmoors Head against Surry Street in [the] Strand
Abstract

Four designs enclosed by scrolls, with six lines of verse inscribed below two top and bottom left design, and eight lines of verse inscribed below bottom right design

Description
Title from item.
Printmaker supplied by curator.
George Bickham identified as the publisher from address in imprint.
'Price 1s.'
Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Hospital for Foundlings -- Castles -- Ships: ships shelling shoreline fortifications -- Ships: ships for sale, with brooms at mastheads -- Placemen -- Broad-bottoms -- Bills: excise tax, 1741 -- Guns: cannon -- Birds: doves -- Flags -- Masks: mask with dagger -- Churches: St. Paul's -- Savoyards -- Sun: eclipse -- Moon -- Treaties -- Webs: spider web -- Symbols: hands of Providence -- Wars: war with Spain, 1739 -- Animals: wolf -- Animals: cat -- Animals: mice -- Heads: grotesque head -- Emblems: German eagle -- Personifications: Holland as an infant in cradle holding heraldic arrows -- Emblematic representations: English and French dogs pouncing on Spanish dogs -- Personifications: hand-tied Justice -- Emblems: French fox -- Devil holding scroll -- Devil laughing -- Devil flying kite -- Devil fishing -- Maps: Cartegna -- Maps: England -- Maps: Havana -- Maps: capture of Porto Bello, November 22, 1739 -- Joseph Edward, Count Gage, 1678?-1753?
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 27.3 x 39.8 cm, on sheet 36 x 44.9 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
741.00.00.06.1+

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1741
Etchings England London 1741
Material
etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
Subjects
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788 > Caricatures and cartoons
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 > Caricatures and cartoons
Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1741
England > London > 1741

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8826334
Object ID (OID)
10700256

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