Risum teneatis amici [The 2 H, H's] ; Naturae lusus, a curious petri-faction dedicated to Society of Antiquarians. [graphic]

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Title
Risum teneatis amici [The 2 H, H's] ; Naturae lusus, a curious petri-faction dedicated to Society of Antiquarians. [graphic]
Published / Created
[1756]
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Description
Title from item.
Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged horizontally, separately titled.
Title of the center design assigned by cataloger from its original. See Stephens 3342.
Four lines of verse below title in left design: Aquilus can nurse his own, on other birds he'll prey ...
Six lines of verse below center desgin: Oh! Shame to nature, shame to common sense. must Britain for its own defence ...
Five lines of explanatory description below right design: 1.1. Two heads imperfect & of a black hew suppos'd to have been wood ...
Copies of, from left, nos. 3502, 3342, and 3417 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Justice -- Personifications: Loyalty -- Pictures amplifying subject: images of Justice and Loyalty hung upside down -- Cap of Liberty -- Wigs: Lord Chancellor's wig -- Reference to French influence -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Newcastle Administration --Birds: vulture -- Money: bags of money -- Bible: Revers'd Bible -- Literature: quotation from Horace's Ars poetica, 5 -- Military: chained English soldiers -- Monuments -- Military: Hanoverian Hessians -- Plinths -- Swords: broken swords -- Societies: reference to Society of Antiquarians.
Provenance
Suckling.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 9.7 x 19.6 cm, on sheet 14 x 25 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
756.00.00.28

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)
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773
Subjects
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764 > Caricatures and cartoons
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774 > Caricatures and cartoons
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 > Caricatures and cartoons
Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1756
England > London > 1756

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Orbis Record
8587623
Object ID (OID)
10714558

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