The sawyers demolishing the Temple of Liberty [graphic]

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Title: The sawyers demolishing the Temple of Liberty [graphic]
Published / Created: [1771]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title etched below image.
Publication place and date inferred from magazine for which this plate was engraved.
Illustration to a letter to the editor signed 'S.P.'
Plate from: The Oxford magazine. London : Printed for the authors, v. 6 (1771), p. 28.
Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: temples -- Temple of liberty -- Personifications: Liberty -- Magna Charta -- Bill of Rights -- Secret influence -- Sawyers -- Emblems: cap and staff of liberty -- Tools: saws.
Provenance: Walter Schatzki; November 1960;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 11.1 x 17 cm, on sheet 13 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1771
Periodical illustrations
Etchings England London 1771
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789
Subjects: Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793 > Caricatures and cartoons
Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1771
England > London > 1771

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