The Hydra [graphic]

Description

Title: The Hydra [graphic]
Published / Created: [ca. 1770]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Imperfect; statement of responsibility erased from sheet. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Lightning bolts -- Thunder -- Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland.
Mounted to 20 x 14 cm; mounted again to 25 x 25 cm.
Provenance: Print Shop; October 1959;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 18 x 12 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Periodical illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1770
Etchings England London 1770
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782
Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779
Subject (Topic): Hydra (Greek mythology)
Britannia (Symbolic character)
Lightning
Clouds
Shields
Crutches
Subjects: Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811 > Caricatures and cartoons
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 > Caricatures and cartoons
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782 > Caricatures and cartoons
Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hydra (Greek mythology)
Britannia (Symbolic character)
Lightning
Clouds
Shields
Crutches
England > 1770
England > London > 1770

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