The Greenwich farce as acted by a renowned admiral and other great personages. [graphic]

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Title: The Greenwich farce as acted by a renowned admiral and other great personages. [graphic]
Published / Created: [9 September 1756]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Sepr. 9, 1756, to be had at the Lyon near St. Paul's
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Military -- Soldiers' uniforms -- General Evening Post -- Bills & petitions: address from the City of London on the loss of Minorca -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Henry VIII, 2.353-59 -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Hamlet i.5.9 -- Reference to Greenwich.
Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Provenance: Suckling; November 1958;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 22 x 34 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1756
Etchings England London 1756
Watermarks (Paper) L V G.
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Byng, John, 1704-1757
Torrington, George Byng, Viscount, 1663-1733
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Subject (Topic): Soldiers
British
Military uniforms
Newspapers
Devil
Subjects: Byng, John, 1704-1757 > Caricatures and cartoons
Torrington, George Byng, Viscount, 1663-1733 > 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
Soldiers > British
Military uniforms
Newspapers
Devil
England > 1756
England > London > 1756
L V G.

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