The vulture [graphic].

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Title: The vulture [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Edwards, George, 1694-1773, publisher.
Published / Created: [1756]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: To be had at the golden Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Description: Title from item.
Publisher identified from address.
Plate numbered '12' in upper right corner.
Four lines of verse below image: Aquilus can nurse his own, on other birds he'll prey ...
Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757].
Reversed copy of No. 3502 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Loyalty -- Personifications: Justice -- Cap of Liberty -- Wigs: Chancellor's wig -- Reference to French influence -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Newcastle administration -- Birds: vulture -- Money: bags of money -- Bible: reversed Bible -- Literature: quotation from Horace's Ars poetica, 5.
Mounted to 21 x 26 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec., 1966 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 11.3 x 7.6 cm., on sheet 14 x 10 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1756
Etchings England London 1756
Book illustrations
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764
Subjects: Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1756
England > London > 1756

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