The reason

Description

Title: The reason
Contributor: Cooper, Thomas, -1743, bookseller.
Published / Created: [1741]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-noster-Row, 1741. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament
Description: Dated in lower left corner of plate: March [the] 2 1740.
'Price six pence.'
Letterpress broadside poem printed, illustrated with etching (plate mark 20.8 x 32.8 cm) at top of sheet
Verse - "Who be dat de box do sit on?".
An engraved cartoon, with verses, in answer to the print "The motion."
Against Walpole.
Watermark: watermark and countermark.
Tentatively attributed on verso to George Bickham by the curator.
1 print on laid paper : etching ; plate mark 20.8 x 32.7 cm., on sheet 32 x 33 cm.
Provenance: Suckling ; Nov., 1956;
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : 32 x 39 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Satires England 1741
Satires (Visual works) England 1741
Etchings England London 1741
Watermarks (Paper)
Brit tracts
Material: 1 ill., and laid paper.
Subject (Name): William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765.
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745.
Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743.
Hervey, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743.
Middleton, Conyers, 1683-1750.
Subjects: William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743
Hervey, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743
Middleton, Conyers, 1683-1750
England > 1741
England > London > 1741
Brit tracts > 1741

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