Orator Humbug to Admiral Bungy [graphic].

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Title: Orator Humbug to Admiral Bungy [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Edwards, George, 1694-1773, publisher.
Published / Created: [4 November 1756]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd according to act Novr. 4th, 1756, by Edwards & Darly facing Hungerford, Strand
Description: Title from item.
Plate numbered '43' in upper right corner.
Fifteen lines of verse in rebus below image: No soon[er] came [I] un[to] [sticks] / [but] quite convinc'd of [all] our tricks ...
The following words within the quoted verse are represented by a rebus: 'er' in sooner by an ear, I by an eye, 'to' in unto by a toe, sticks by a bunch of sticks, but by a butt, all by an awl.
Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757].
Mounted to 17 x 23 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec., 1966 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 11.2 x 8.2 cm, on sheet 14 x 10 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1756
Etchings England London 1756
Rebuses
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Byng, John, 1704-1757
Henley, John, 1692-1756
Subjects: Byng, John, 1704-1757 > Caricatures and cartoons
Henley, John, 1692-1756 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1756
England > London > 1756

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