Killegrew [toe] Mr. [Pitt] [graphic].

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Title: Killegrew [toe] Mr. [Pitt] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Killegrew toe Mr. Pitt
Killigrew to Mr. Pitt
Contributor: Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, artist.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Edwards, George, 1694-1773, publisher.
Published / Created: [24 November 1756]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd according to act Novr. 24, 1756, by Darly & Edwards at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Description: Title from item.
Plate numbered '49' at top.
An engraved letter in form of rebus from Sir Thomas Killigrew to William Pitt the Elder.
The following words within title are represented by a rebus: to by a toe, Pitt by a hole dug up in a ground.
The portrait below title is after Hollar's head of Killigrew. See Stephens.
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 18 x 27 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 10.9 x 7.9 cm, on sheet 14 x 10 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works)
Rebuses
Etchings England London 1756
Book illustrations
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Killigrew, Thomas, 1612-1683
Subjects: Killigrew, Thomas, 1612-1683 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > London > 1756

Access: Public
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