Punch's opera with the humours of Little Ben the Sailor [graphic].

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Title: Punch's opera with the humours of Little Ben the Sailor [graphic].
Published / Created: [1756]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from caption etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Four lines of text below image: These figures gem'men & ladies are the richest & largest in Europe ...
Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759.
Reversed copy of No. 3394 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Mr. Punch -- Personifications: Punch's wife, Joan -- Literature: reference to Bardolph in Shakespeare's Henry IV.
Provenance: Suckling.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 10 x 12 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1756
Etchings England London 1756
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764
Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
Subjects: Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764 > Caricatures and cartoons
Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778 > Caricatures and cartoons
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 > Caricatures and cartoons
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774 > Caricatures and cartoons
Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773 > Caricatures and cartoons
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1756
England > London > 1756

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