The old woman & her ass a fable. [graphic]

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Title: The old woman & her ass a fable. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Old woman and her ass
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 Acorn, facing Hungerford, in the Strand
Description: Title from item.
Publisher identified from address.
Plate numbered '10' in upper right corner.
Four lines of verse below image: There lives a report that in Asia's hot clime was an ass turn'd to stone for a horrible crime ...
Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757].
Temporary local subject terms: Asses -- Reference to French influence -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Literature: quotation from fable, The old woman & her ass -- Containers: fishwoman's tub for pickled salmon -- Allusion to Billingsgate -- House of Commons: allusion to Ways and Means -- Taxes: 1756 -- Mercenaries: payment to Hanoverian Hessians, 1756.
Mounted to 16 x 33 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; Dec. 1966;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 7.9 x 11 cm, on sheet 10 x 14 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): Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773
Subjects: 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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