The great financier, or, British oeconomy for the years 1763, 1764, 1765 [graphic].

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Title: The great financier, or, British oeconomy for the years 1763, 1764, 1765 [graphic].
Alternative Title: British economy for the years 1763, 1764, 1765
Published / Created: approximately 1765]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title etched below image.
Publication date from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.4371.
A reduced copy of no. 4128 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Plate engraved for: The British Antidote or Scot's Scourge. See British Museum catalogue.
Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Economy -- Law: taxation without representation -- Ships: ships for sale (with brooms at masthead) -- Prisons -- Personifications: America as a native man -- Newfoundland: reference to the Newfoundland fisheries -- Frenchmen -- Spaniards -- Reference to Havana -- Reference to Guadeloupe -- Reference to Philippines -- Money: colonial dollars -- General Warrants -- Lighting: save-all -- Excisemen: Stamp men -- Reference to the dismissal of Henry Seymour Conway, 1721-1795.
Mounted to 34 x 44 cm.
Watermark: Vryheyt.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Bowditch's note on mounting sheet: Truman Sale 1906.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 14.9 x 17.1 cm, on sheet 16 x 18 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1765
Etchings England London 1765
Watermarks (Paper) Vryheyt
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Grenville, George, 1712-1770
Subject (Topic): Gout
Britannia (Symbolic character)
Subjects: Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 > Caricatures and cartoons
Grenville, George, 1712-1770 > Caricatures and cartoons
Treaty of Paris (1763 February 10)
Gout
Britannia (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1765
England > London > 1765
Vryheyt

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