The Parcae, or, The European Fates [graphic].

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Title: The Parcae, or, The European Fates [graphic].
Alternative Title: European Fates
Contributor: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, publisher.
Published / Created: [1744]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Garden
Description: Title from item.
Publisher identified from address.
Publication date from an unverified card catalog record.
Ten lines of verse in two columns below image: While Tencin spins, like Atropos, his thread ...
Printseller's announcement following imprint: Where is 50 sorts.
For discussion of this print see the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Frederick George Stephens, v. 3, note to no. 2606.
Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Holland as a headless person with 7 hands -- Spinning wheels -- Bags of goods -- Smuggling -- Archers' bows -- Shears -- Spindles -- Jacobite plot -- Boxes of Dutch tea -- Bales of English wool.
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 226 x 212 mm, on sheet 38 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1744
Etchings England London 1744
Watermarks (Paper) I V.
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760
Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788
Tencin, Pierre Guérin de, 1679-1758
Subjects: George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760 > Caricatures and cartoons
Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758 > Caricatures and cartoons
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774 > Caricatures and cartoons
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788 > Caricatures and cartoons
Tencin, Pierre Guérin de, 1679-1758 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1744
England > London > 1744
I V.

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