A courier just setting out (who has any letters to send?) sketch'd from [the] life while his boots were greasing [graphic].

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Title: A courier just setting out (who has any letters to send?) sketch'd from [the] life while his boots were greasing [graphic].
Published / Created: [1745]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Six lines of verse below the figures in the image: At length old O----d [i.e., Orford] must depart, helped on by medicinal art ...
Temporary local subject terms: Medicine: prescriptions -- Canes: gold-headed cane -- Broad Bottoms -- Animals: ass with human head -- Reference to quackery -- Whips -- Letters
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 16.7 x 29.8 cm, on sheet 24 x 38 cm
Edition: [State with additional verses in design]
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1745
Etchings England London 1745
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763
Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764
Mead, Richard, 1673-1754
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752
Subjects: Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 > Caricatures and cartoons
Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764 > Caricatures and cartoons
Mead, Richard, 1673-1754 > Caricatures and cartoons
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 > Caricatures and cartoons
Cotton, John Hynde, Sir, 1686-1752 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1745
England > London > 1745

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