The whipping post [graphic].

Description

Title: The whipping post [graphic].
Contributor: Sumpter, Edward, active 1763-1787, publisher.
Published / Created: [1763]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: E. Sumpter
Description: Title from item.
Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published.
Two lines of verse below image: Mac with a thistle turned Jack Ketch, makes poor Britannia shew her breech.
First state, without jack boot and Magna Charta in the image, of no. 3945 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763.
Temporary local subject terms: Punishments: whipping -- British Lion -- Emblems: thistle (Scotland) -- Executioners: reference to Jack Ketch, d. 1686.
Mounted to 25 x 34 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 9.5 x 11.8 cm, on sheet 12 x 19 cm
Edition: [1st state?].
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1762
Etchings England London 1762
Book illustrations
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Subject (Topic): Britannia (Symbolic character)
Subjects: Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 > Caricatures and cartoons
Britannia (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1762
England > London > 1762

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