The M-r-ys, or, The thistle blown [graphic].

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Title: The M-r-ys, or, The thistle blown [graphic].
Alternative Title: Thistle blown
Murrays
Published / Created: [1743?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title etched above image.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Four lines of verse in two columns below image: As cannons shoot the higher pitches, the lower we let down their breeches ...
Temporary local subject terms: Guns: cannon -- Personifications: political writer as a cannon -- Slogans: Broad Bottom (taking all parties and people indifferently into the ministry - Horace Walpole's definition) -- Animals: greyhound -- Boxes: strong box -- Lawyers -- Jacobites -- Male dress: peer's robes -- Literature: Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1612-1680.
Watermark: countermark IV.
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 200 x 325 mm, on sheet 24 x 38 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1743
Etchings England London 1743
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766
Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752
Maddox, Isaac, 1697-1759
Wynne-Williams, Watkin, Baron, 1692-1749
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
Subjects: James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766 > Caricatures and cartoons
Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752 > Caricatures and cartoons
Maddox, Isaac, 1697-1759 > Caricatures and cartoons
Wynne-Williams, Watkin, Baron, 1692-1749 > Caricatures and cartoons
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1743
England > London > 1743

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