[The senators] [graphic].

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Title: [The senators] [graphic].
Contributor: Kearsley, George, -1790, publisher.
Published / Created: 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for G. Kearsley in Ludgate Street
Description: Title and imprint from British Museum catalogue.
Four lines of verse below image: Thus our senators cheat the deluded people with a shew, of liberty, which yet they ne'er must taste of ... . Otway.
Title-page vignette from: Senators, or a candid examination into the merits of the principal performers of St. Stephens Chapel / Thomas Delamayne. London : Printed for G. Kearsley, 1772.
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: House of Commons speaker's chair -- Executioner's axe -- Acts of Parliament: Royal Marriage Act, 1772 -- Reference to Magna Charta -- Reference to the Bill of Rights -- Literature: quotation from Venice Preserv'd by Thomas Otway (1652-1685).
Contemporary mss. note below plate on the first mounting paper: The Royal Marriage Act obtained the Kings consent April 1, 1772 -- in consequence of the Duke of Cumberland having married Mrs. Horton.
Mounted to 16 x 19 cm, and mounted again to 25 x 32 cm.
Provenance: Old Print Shop; October 1959;
Extent: 1 print : oval image 7.2 x 12.3 cm., plate mark 9.4 x 13.4 cm., on sheet 10 x 15 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658
Subjects: Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1772
England > London > 1772

Access: Public
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