The apparition [graphic].

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Title: The apparition [graphic].
Contributor: Smith, J. active approximately 1750-1792, publisher.
Published / Created: [14 August 1756]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Aug. 14, 1756, by J. Smith at Hogarth's Head, Cheapside
Abstract: "Satire on Admiral Byng; Byng, in fetters, is visited by the ghost of his father, the naval hero George Byng, Viscount Torrington, who harangues him in verse; on a table are books lettered "Spanish Armada" and "Matthews and Lestock"; on the wall behind the figures are two pictures, one in which Byng addresses the Duke of Newcastle, "Pray your Grace let me be sent", and the other in which a figure of Justice points to a mob carrying an effigy of Byng, labelled "I Could not Fight", towards a gallows at the foot of which lies a sheet of paper lettered, "Gazetta B[yng']s Letter Lyes and Nonsence"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image, above verses.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Two columns of verse below title: Oh, thou whose timid cow'ring heart, by low born fear's betray'd ...
Temporary local subject terms: Personfications: figure of Justice.
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis.
Mounted to 35 x 40 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 31.9 x 21.4 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1756
Engravings England London 1756
Etchings England London 1756
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Byng, John, 1704-1757
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Subject (Topic): Ghosts
Shackles
Justice
Gallows
Effigies
Subjects: Ghosts
Shackles
Justice
Gallows
Effigies
Byng, John, 1704-1757 > Caricatures and cartoons
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1756
England > London > 1756

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