The Highland seer, or, The political vision felix quem faciunt aliena cautum. [graphic]

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Title: The Highland seer, or, The political vision felix quem faciunt aliena cautum. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Political vision
Published / Created: [June 1762]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left.
"Price 6 pence".
Seven lines of verse above image, in center of title line: Is there a chorus on human kind so fell, so pestilent, at once, to Prince and people ... Thomson.
Three columns of explanatory description below image: A. Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, favourite & suppos'd minion of the Queen Mother, in the reign of Edward III ...
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedchamber -- Ghosts -- Pictures amplifying subject: portraits of the Princess of Wales and Lord Bute -- Newspapers: Monitor -- Newspapers: North Briton -- Furniture: couch -- Furnishings: bed curtains -- Mottoes: Felix quem faciunt aliena cautum -- Literature: quotation from Thomson -- Literature: allusion to Richard III by Shakespeare -- Peter des Roches, d. 1238, Bishop of Winchester.
Provenance: Suckling.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 27 cm, on sheet 24 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1762
Etchings England London 1762
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330
Burgh, Hubert de, d. 1243
Montfort, Simon de, Earl of Leicester, 1208?-1265
Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601
Subjects: Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330 > Caricatures and cartoons
Burgh, Hubert de, d. 1243 > Caricatures and cartoons
Montfort, Simon de, Earl of Leicester, 1208?-1265 > Caricatures and cartoons
Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1762
England > London > 1762

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