The 3 Damiens [graphic].

Description

Title: The 3 Damiens [graphic].
Alternative Title: Three Damiens
Creator: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Contributor: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Published / Created: [4 March 1757]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd according to act March 4, 1757, to be had at the Acorn facing Hungerford
Description: Title from text engraved above image.
Print attributed to Matthias Darly. See British Museum online catalogue.
Plate numbered '60' in upper right corner.
Eight lines of verse engraved below image: The volture, ape, and fox can do more wickedness than Damien knew ...
Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757].
Mounted to 25 x 26 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 11 x 7.8 cm, on sheet 14 x 10 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1757
Etchings England London 1757
Book illustrations
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Subjects: Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764 > Caricatures and cartoons
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 > Caricatures and cartoons
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1757
England > London > 1757

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