Oliver Crom[well]s s[peech] [to] the [ass] & [fox] 1756 [graphic].

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Title: Oliver Crom[well]s s[peech] [to] the [ass] & [fox] 1756 [graphic].
Alternative Title: Oliver Cromwell's speech to the ass and fox 1756
Contributor: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Edwards, George, 1694-1773, publisher.
Published / Created: [24 September 1756]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd according to act Sept. 24, 1756, by Darly & Edwards at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Description: Title from first line of text.
An engraved letter in the form of rebus.
The following words within title are represented by a rebus: 'well' in 'Cromwells' by a well, 'peech' in 'speech' by a peach, to by a toe, ass by a donkey, fox by a fox.
Twelve lines of 'speech' in rebus below title: Those [men] t[hat] [love] t[hare] king & count[ry] ...
Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757].
Plate numbered '16' in upper right corner of design.
Mounted to 27 x 21 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 11 x 8 cm, on sheet 14 x 10 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1756
Etchings England London 1756
Rebuses
Book illustrations
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658
Subjects: Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774 > Caricatures and cartoons
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 > Caricatures and cartoons
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1756
England > London > 1756

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