The medallion [graphic].

Description

Title: The medallion [graphic].
Contributor: Withy, Robert, 1732-1803, publisher.
Published / Created: [October 1761]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed & sold by R. Withy, at the Dunciad in Cornhill
Description: Title from item.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
'Price 6d.'
Seven stanzas of verse engraved below image: Behold his bust who saved our state, view sympathizing Britain weep ...
Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: old and injured British Oak -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Wars: allusion to war with Spain -- Wars: allusion to peace negotiations, 1762 -- Navy: war ships -- Family compact -- Containers: travelling trunks -- Medallions -- Bribes -- Spaniards -- Frenchmen -- Literature: quotation from Cato, iv.139, by Joseph Addison, 1672-1719 -- Allusion to François de Bussy, 1699-1789 -- Allusion to John Russell, Duke of Bedford, 1710-1771.
Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Provenance: Hill, Peter Murray, Chelsea, London; March 1961;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.5 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 36 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1761
Engravings England London 1761
Etchings England London 1761
Watermarks (Paper) L V G.
Material: etching & engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778,
Subjects: Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
England > 1761
England > London > 1761
L V G.

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