Destructive cannon Refus'd by foreigners ; Foreigners think this too dangerous. [graphic]

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Title
Destructive cannon Refus'd by foreigners ; Foreigners think this too dangerous. [graphic]
Alternative Title
Refus'd by foreigners
Refused by foreigners
Foreigners think this too dangerous
Published / Created
[1756]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
publisher not identified
Description
Title from item.
Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically.
Two lines of text below top design: This piece of the train found to do greater execution the more its wore ...
Two lines of text below center design: This piece drives all before it & acts equally from either end ...
Two lines of text below bottom design: This piece kill'd two persons in proving ...
Enlarged and reversed copy of Cannon refus'd by foreigners as too destructive, i.e., No. 3490 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Ways and Means, 1756 -- Personifications: Liberty as a gun-carriage -- Personifications: Property as gun-carriage -- Personifications: heterodox clergyman as a gun-carriage -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Guns: cannon -- Maps: map of England -- Money: coins as wheels -- Gun-carriage -- Ammunition: sacks of 'Luxury', 'Venality', 'Corruption' -- Ammunition: trunks of 'Pride', 'Avarice' -- Ammunition: books of 'Priestcraft', 'Heresy' -- Bills: Money Bill, 1756 -- Emblems: trade as a ship -- Taxes: 1756 -- Spears: Britannia's broken spear -- Bill: Marriage bill, 1756 -- Buildings: churches -- Bible --Allusion to the Duke of Newcastle -- Allusion to Lord Hardwicke.
Provenance
Suckling.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 19.7 x 10 cm, on sheet 26 x 14 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
756.00.00.25

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1756
Etchings England London 1756
Playing cards England 1756
Material
etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Subjects
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1756
England > London > 1756

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8587324
Object ID (OID)
10714555

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