An antidote by Carr for C-l-d----n impurities experantia docet. [graphic]

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Title: An antidote by Carr for C-l-d----n impurities experantia docet. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Antidote by Carr for Caledonian impurities
Contributor: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Published / Created: [26 May 1762]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed & sold at Darly's in Cranbourn Ally, as the act directs Js. P.
Description: Title etched above image.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Three columns of verse below image begins: In an---t days Sr Robt Carr ...
Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to William Pitt the Elder -- Executioner's axe -- Emblems: Thistle (Scotland) -- Emblems: Jack boot (Lord Bute) -- Ghosts.
1 print : etching ; sheet 20 x 25 cm.
On laid paper, sheet trimmed within plate mark, mounted to 32 x 48 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Bowditch's note on mounting sheet: Truman Sale 1906.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 26.5 cm, on sheet 26 x 37 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1762
Etchings England London 1762
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Somerset, Robert Carr, Earl of, d. 1645
Subject (Topic): Britannia (Symbolic character)
Subjects: Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774 > Caricatures and cartoons
Somerset, Robert Carr, Earl of, d. 1645 > Caricatures and cartoons
Britannia (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1762
England > London > 1762

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