The Scotch tent, or, True contrast [graphic].

Description

Title: The Scotch tent, or, True contrast [graphic].
Alternative Title: True contrast
Creator: Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [1762]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. in Ryders Court and to be had at the sign of the pannel painter in Cheapside or at the bust of Impudence alias the brazen head in Leicester Square
Description: Title etched above image.
Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher probably Mary Darly. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, no. 3912
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Tents -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Emblems: petticoat for the Princess of Wales -- Treaties: Treaty of Paris, 1763 -- Mottoes: mores, homines.
Unidentified watermark, possibly Vryheyt.
Mounted to 35 x 48 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Bowditch's note on mounting sheet: Truman Sale 1906.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 192 x 292 mm
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): George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Subjects: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 > Caricatures and cartoons
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 > Caricatures and cartoons
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1762
England > London > 1762

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