The mountebank [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- The mountebank [graphic].
- Published / Created
- published according to act 1762.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
A crowd of people, most wearing Scotch plaid, stand before a mountebank's stage, holding out their hands to the charlatan, a caricature of Lord Bute who holds bags of money. Behind him on the floor of the stage is a chest filled with more bags of money. A woman in a Welsh hat, the Princess of Wales, looks out from the curtains of a bed in the back of the stage and listens with pleasure. A tall quack (T. Smollet) wears a fool's cap, a hornbook hangs from his girdle, and the newspapers The Briton rolled under his arm; at his feet are other copies of The North Briton and The Monitor
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Numbered in upper right corner: "Brit. Antidote. Pl. 20."
Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 20.
Bowditch's transcription of E. Truman's note on the mounting sheet; "Truman Sale 1906."
Mounted to 31 x 47 cm. - Provenance
- Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Formerly owned by Edwin Thomas Truman, and sold to Bowditch in 1906.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 21 x 34 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 762.05.00.20
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1762
Etchings England London 1762 - Material
- etching ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name)
-
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias), - Subject (Topic)
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Political corruption
Patronage, Political
Crowds
Fools & jesters
Quacks - Subjects
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Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818 > Caricatures and cartoons
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771 > Caricatures and cartoons
Political corruption > Great Britain
Patronage, Political > Great Britain
Crowds
Fools & jesters
Quacks
England > 1762
England > London > 1762
Truman, Edwin Thomas, 1818-1905 > Ms. notes
Truman, Edwin Thomas, 1818-1905 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8524505
- Object ID (OID)
- 10713058