Byng return'd, or, The council of expedients [graphic].

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Title: Byng return'd, or, The council of expedients [graphic].
Alternative Title: Council of expedients
Byng returned
Published / Created: [1756]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Satire on the ministerial changes and payments made to out-going ministers; Admiral Byng is shown in chains holding the dispatches referring to his withdrawal from action at Minorca; Earl Sandwich concerns himself only with opera and theatre."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched above image.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Six lines of verse below image: The quacks of government who sate at the unregarded helm of the state ...
Temporary local subject terms: Trials: court-martial of Admiral Byng -- Reference to the Battle of Minorca, 20 May 1756 -- Fetters -- Literature: quotation from Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1612-1680.
Watermark.
Mounted, for further information consult staff.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; From E. Truman's collection.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24 x 31 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1756
Etchings England London 1756
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Minorca (Spain)
Subject (Name): William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Byng, John, 1704-1757
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764
Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Subject (Topic): History
Shackles
Scales
Subjects: William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765 > Caricatures and cartoons
Byng, John, 1704-1757 > Caricatures and cartoons
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774 > Caricatures and cartoons
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762 > Caricatures and cartoons
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Minorca (Spain) > History > Siege, 1756
Shackles
Scales
England > 1756
England > London > 1756

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