Upright Billy alias Orator Humbug [graphic].

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Title: Upright Billy alias Orator Humbug [graphic].
Alternative Title: Fee fa fum I smell the cash of the City -- mum!
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [30 December 1788]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publishd Decr. 30th 1788 by H. Humphry, Bond Street
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Aldermen led by the nose -- Placards -- City Committee placard -- Addresses: Treasury address, 1788 -- Literature: quotation from "Jack the Giant Killer" -- Bags of money -- Taxes: shop tax, 1788 -- Scrutiny: Westminster, 1788 -- Tasselled canes -- Wooden legs --- Slang: pepperd, i.e., venereal disease -- Pitt's ministry, 17888 -- Subscriptions: subscription for Pitt, 1788.
Watermark.
Provenance: Suckling; 1956.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 37 x 52 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1788
Etchings England London 1788
Watermarks (Paper)
Annotations (Provenance)
Material: etching with roulette on blue laid paper ;
Subject (Name): Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Watson, Brook, 1735 -1807
Pretyman, George, 1750-1827
Subject (Topic): Caricatures and cartoons
Subjects: Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797 > Caricatures and cartoons
Watson, Brook, 1735 -1807 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pretyman, George, 1750-1827 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1788
England > London > 1788
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes

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