Sawney below stairs [graphic].

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Title: Sawney below stairs [graphic].
Published / Created: [1763]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from caption etched above image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Three columns of verse below image: News, news, Britons, news is arriv'd by this packet, just brought by a devil in flame colour'd jacket ...
Temporary local subject terms: Resignations: Lord Bute's resignation, April 1763 -- Excise: Cyder Act -- Mythology: Underworld -- Charon -- Cerberus -- River Styx -- Furies -- Animals: reptiles -- Literature: reference to Sejanus by Ben Jonson, 1572-1637.
Mounted to 27 x 40 cm., mounted again to 38 x 56 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ; Bowditch's note on mounting sheet: Truman Sale 1906.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24 x 37 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1763
Etchings England London 1763
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530
Brühl, Heinrich, Graf von, 1700-1763
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Subjects: Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330 > Caricatures and cartoons
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 > Caricatures and cartoons
Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530 > Caricatures and cartoons
Brühl, Heinrich, Graf von, 1700-1763 > Caricatures and cartoons
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1763
England > London > 1763

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