Needs must when the devil drives [graphic].

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Title: Needs must when the devil drives [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Edwards, George, 1694-1773, publisher.
Published / Created: [25 October 1756]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd according to act Oct. 25th, 1756, by Edwards & Darly facing Hungerford in the Strand
Description: Title from item.
Plate numbered '21' in upper right corner.
Six lines of verse in two columns below image: The gen'rous steed no more will grace the field / But to the critic goose and cobbling turky [sic] yield ...
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: Vehicles: go-cart -- Devil.
Mounted to 14 x 31 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec., 1966 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 8 x 11.1 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 (Topic): Britannia (Symbolic character)
Subjects: Britannia (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1756
England > London > 1756

Access: Public
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