The house that Jack built 1785 [graphic]

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Title: The house that Jack built 1785 [graphic]
Published / Created: published according to act April 26, 1785.
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from words etched in the frame of the doorway in the left of the design.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Beneath the design are etched the subjects and the characters illustrated.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Treasury -- Taxes: Window Tax, 1784 -- American Indians -- Ireland -- Irish harp -- Milk pails -- Literature: "The House that Jack Built" -- Literature: quotation from John Milton's Samson Agonistes.
Provenance: Suckling; November 1956;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 20 x 34 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1785
Etchings England London 1785
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Jenkinson, Charles, 1727-1808
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subjects: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805 > Caricatures and cartoons
Jenkinson, Charles, 1727-1808 > Caricatures and cartoons
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1785
England > London > 1785

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