Truth and moderation

Description

Title: Truth and moderation
Contributor: King, John, fl. 1710-1749, publisher.
Published / Created: published April the 21 1741.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold by John King in the Poultry, John Tinney at the Golden Lion in Fleet Street, and at the print and pamphlet shops
Description: Letterpress broadside poem illustrated with a hand-colored etching at top of sheet (plate mark 20 x 31.8 cm.).
Publication date from plate.
Ten stanzas of song, separated with ornamental borders, below image: Midst home-bred feuds and foreign nurtur'd jars ... Signed: C.P.G.
Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Despair -- Personifications: Rage -- Personifications: Folly.
Watermark: Pro Patria.
Provenance: Maggs ; Sept. 1957 ; From Minto Wilson collection, with his stamp on verso.
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : 34 x 43 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Early works to 1800
Broadsides England 1741
Satires England 1741
Satires (Visual works) England 1741
Etchings England London 1741
Watermarks (Paper) Pro Patria
Material: ill. (etching) ;
Subject (Name): Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Subjects: Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 > Caricatures and cartoons
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 > Early works to 1800
England > 1741
England > London > 1741
Pro Patria

Access: Public
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