It is not all gold that glitters, or, Volunteers settling about pedigree and precendence [graphic].

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Title: It is not all gold that glitters, or, Volunteers settling about pedigree and precendence [graphic].
Alternative Title: Volunteers settling about pedigree and precendence
Creator: Ansell, Charles, 1752- printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [1 October 1798]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Octobr. 1st, 1798, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Two images, side by side, on one plate.
Four lines of verse in two columns: O say British youths is it valor you boast , why then fly unanimity's charms, pray tell us contenders, were foes on our coast, would your enmity strenghten our arms.
Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Temporary local subject terms: Military: Portsmouth Volunteer Corps -- Military uniforms: Portsmouth Volunteer Corps -- Shovels: counting houses shovels -- Buildings: breweries -- Counting house clerks -- Latrines -- Brewer's counting houses -- Puns -- Expressions: It is not all gold that glitters -- Furnishings: rugs.
Watermark: E & C T Russell 1797.
Provenance: Walter Schatzki; February 1964;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25.5 x 35.7 cm, on sheet 27 x 39 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1798
Etchings England London 1798
Watermarks (Paper) E & C T Russell 1797
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1798
England > London > 1798
E & C T Russell > 1797

Access: Public
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