Cannon refus'd by foreigners as too destructive [graphic].

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Description

Title
Cannon refus'd by foreigners as too destructive [graphic].
Alternative Title
Cannon refused by foreigners as too destructive
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 Market in the Strand
Description
Title etched at top of plate.
Publisher identified from address.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Three images on one plate, arranged vertically.
Caption in upper right corner of top image: This piece of the train found to do greater execution the more its wore ...
Caption in upper right corner of center image: This piece drives all before it & acts equally from either end ...
Caption in upper right corner of bottom image: This piece kill'd two persons in proving ...
One line of text at bottom of plate: These cannon [sic] are all mounted on golden wheels.
Plate numbered "5" in upper right corner.
Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757].
Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Ways and Means, 1756 -- Personifications: Liberty as a gun-carriage -- Property as gun-carriage -- Heterodox clergyman as a gun-carriage -- Guns -- Map of England -- Coins as wheels -- Gun-carriage -- Ammunition: sacks of 'Luxury', 'Venality', 'Corruption' -- Trunks of 'Pride', 'Avarice' -- Books of 'Priestcra[ft]', 'Heresy' -- Bills: Money Bill, 1756 -- Taxes: 1756 -- Spears: Britannia's broken spear -- Marriage bill, 1756 -- Buildings: churches --Allusion to the Duke of Newcastle -- Allusion to Lord Hardwicke.
Mounted to 18 x 22 cm.
Provenance
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent
1 print : plate mark 11 x 8 cm, on sheet 14 x 10 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
756.00.00.57

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Caricatures and cartoons
Book illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1756
Etchings England London 1756
Material
etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Subject (Topic)
Britannia (Symbolic character)
Cannons
Maps
Money
Taxes
Bibles
Subjects
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774 > Caricatures and cartoons
Britannia (Symbolic character)
Cannons
Maps
Money
Taxes
Bibles
England > 1756
England > London > 1756

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8589133
Object ID (OID)
10714584

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