The wheel of fortune, or, The Scot's step completed [graphic].

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Title: The wheel of fortune, or, The Scot's step completed [graphic].
Alternative Title: Scot's step completed
Published / Created: [1742]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Publication date from British Museum online catalogue.
Five stanzas of verse below title: Fortune's wheel is turning quickly round, and nothing in our court of certainty is found ...
Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: figure of Fortune -- Interiors: Court of Request -- Architectural details: tradesmen's stalls -- Shops: bookseller -- Vehicles: fire-engine.
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 19.5 x 32.8 cm, on sheet 24 x 38 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1742
Etchings England London 1742
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743
Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764
Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Subjects: Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764 > Caricatures and cartoons
Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764 > Caricatures and cartoons
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1742
England > London > 1742

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