The cat's paw [graphic].

Description

Title: The cat's paw [graphic].
Published / Created: [July 1766]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title etched above image.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Five columns of verse below image: A monkey once as stories say delighted with a cat to play and yet appear'd to public eyes, the sage Grimalkin to despise ...
Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: thistle and white rose of Stuarts -- Royal crown -- Animals -- Pictures amplifying subject: A view of Chatam [sic] -- Pictures amplifying subject: A view of the Isle of Bute -- Scots -- Male dress: Highlander's dress.
Mounted to 32 x 47 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 26 x 36 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1766
Etchings England London 1766
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782
Subject (Topic): Fireplaces
Crowns
Cats
Monkeys
Subjects: Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771 > Caricatures and cartoons
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fireplaces
Crowns
Cats
Monkeys
England > 1766
England > London > 1766

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