The way to preferment [graphic].

Description

Title: The way to preferment [graphic].
Published / Created: [1758?]
Publication Place: Lonodon?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in some loss of design on left.
Six lines of verse below image: Nym boldly fought in hopes to gain, a halbert to reward his pain ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Military camps -- Military equipment: tents -- Military officers -- Soldiers in camp -- Food: onions -- Geese -- Animals: dogs -- Bundle of wheat on tent top -- Female dress: open robe, ca. 1758 -- Officer's uniform, ca. 1758 -- Knapsack -- Military uniforms -- Soldier's uniform, ca. 1758 -- Motherhood -- Children: nursing infant -- Preferment -- Weapons: halberd -- Bribery -- Baskets with provisions.
Watermark: British arms(?) with initials G R below.
Provenance: Suckling ; November 1958 ;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 36 x 23 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1758
Etchings England London 1758
Watermarks (Paper) G R.
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1758
England > London > 1758
G R.

Access: Public
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