Captain Macheath [graphic].

Description

Title: Captain Macheath [graphic].
Published / Created: [1768]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title etched below image.
Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved.
Two lines of text below image: The road has done me justice, but the gaming table has been my ruin. Beggars Opera.
Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : J. Almon, v. 2 (1768), p.129.
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Treasury -- Theatrical costumes -- East India Company: directors -- Fire buckets -- Weapons: pistols -- George Dudley, ?1702-1777, Chairman of East India Company -- Robert James, fl. 1768, secretary of East India Company -- Thomas Rouse, d. 1771, Chairman of East India Company -- Literature: quotation from The beggars opera by John Gay.
Mounted to 37 x 28 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 19.4 x 12.7 cm, on sheet 23 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1768
Periodical illustrations England 1768
Etchings England London 1768
Material: etching with stipple engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
East India Company.
Subject (Topic): Interiors
Handguns
Subjects: Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811 > Caricatures and cartoons
East India Company
Interiors
Handguns
England > 1768
England > London > 1768

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