Britons strike home an old tune, proper to be play'd upon several instruments at this juncture. [graphic]

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Title: Britons strike home an old tune, proper to be play'd upon several instruments at this juncture. [graphic]
Contributor: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Edwards, George, 1694-1773, publisher.
Published / Created: [1756]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: To be had at Edwards and Darlys facing Hungerford in the Strand
Description: Title etched above image.
Plate numbered '32' in upper right corner.
Two lines of music with text loosely printed below them: Britons, strike home. Revenge, revenge your country's wrongs.
Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757].
Temporary local subject terms: Fall of the Newcastle Administration -- The Duke of Newcastle as salmon.
Mounted to 17 x 28 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 7.8 x 11.2 cm, on sheet 10 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1756
Etchings England London 1756
Book illustrations
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Subject (Topic): Axes
Musical notation
Subjects: Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 > Caricatures and cartoons
Axes
Musical notation
England > 1756
England > London > 1756

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