The acquital
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Description
- Title
- The acquital
- Contributor
- Cooper, Thomas, -1743, publisher.
- Published / Created
- 1741.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater Noster Row
- Abstract
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"Satire on the ineffectual opposition at the time of the parliamentary motion to remove Robert Walpole from office suggesting that they are motivated by self-interest. Walpole stands in a landscape assailed by arrows labelled "Ambition", "Want of Place", "Disappointment", "Self Interest", "Sham Patriotism", "affected Zeal", "Resentment", "Malice", "Prejudice", "Revenge", "Disaffection", "Want of Pension", and "Pique"; none of the arrows hit their mark. On the left opposition politicians with their bows stand or run away. They are identified in the verses beneath: Carteret, Argyll, the Bishop of Lichfield fallen to the ground saying "The D[evi]l owed me a Spite", Sandys crying "all mismanaged", Doddington, Lyttelton, Pulteney saying, "Z[ound]s I've mist him"; in the foreground, the tory William Shippen kneels laying down his bow and saying "I'll e'en not meddle"; a group of tories rushing away to left cry, "Let us make hast out"; the devil flies above them in the form of a winged pig, crying "yah! yah! yah!". In the background three men labour in vain to push a millstone up a hill twoards where another waits to receive it. On the right a group of Walpole's supporters mock the opposition, noting particularly the collapse of the Bishop Smalbroke, "Split Devil is down". Fifteen explanatory stanzas below, each ending with the chorus, "Doodle, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched on plate above image.
Fifteen stanzas of verse below image: Who be he dat stand alone-a ...
"Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. Price Six-Pence."--Following imprint.
Letterpress broadside poem illustrated with etching at top of sheet (plate mark 20.8 x 30.2 cm).
Watermark: Pro Patria. - Provenance
- Maggs; September 1957; From Minto Wilson collection, with his stamp on verso.
- Extent
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : 34 x 42 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 741.03.30.01+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Broadside poems
Satires England 1741
Satires (Visual works) England 1741
Etchings England London 1741
Watermarks (Paper) - Material
- 1 etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- text and still image
- Subject (Name)
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Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764
Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770
Smalbroke, Richard, 1672-1749
Shippen, William, 1673-1743 - Subjects
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Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764 > Caricatures and cartoons
Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770 > Caricatures and cartoons
Smalbroke, Richard, 1672-1749 > Caricatures and cartoons
Shippen, William, 1673-1743 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1741
England > London > 1741
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- 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
- 8816479
- Object ID (OID)
- 10700404