The political libertines, or, Motion upon motion [graphic].

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Title
The political libertines, or, Motion upon motion [graphic].
Alternative Title
Motion upon motion
Contributor
Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, publisher.
Published / Created
[1741?]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Sold by G. Bickham [...]
Description
Title from item.
Printseller's announcement following imprint: Where may be had [the] original Reason.
Fourteen stanzas of verse in five columns below image: All ye friends to merry ditty, Pray attend and I will fitt ye ...
Another state, with imprint and printseller's announcement partially burnished from plate. Cf. No. 2490 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Temporary local subject terms: Motions: motion for dismissal of Sir Robert Walpole -- Mottoes: Pro Patria Mori -- Conventions: allusion to the Pardo Convention, 1739 -- Emblems: Commonwealth as a coach -- Fairs: allusion to Bolingbroke's fair -- Buildings: Exchequer -- Signs: signboard -- Clergy: bishop -- Vehicles: coach -- Preferments -- Bills: place bill -- Bills: pension bill -- Emblems: France as a French ape -- Newspapers -- Allusion to Barcelona -- Literature: allusion to Vindication of the miracles, by Richard Smalbroke, 1672-1741 -- Speeches: allusion to Gage's speech against registering of seamen, December 1740 -- Animals: Viscount Bolingbroke as a bull -- Animals: Cardinal Fleury as a fox.
With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Provenance
P. Murray Hill; May 1957; Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 20.5 x 33.4 cm, on sheet 24 x 38 cm
Edition
[State with partially burnished imprint].
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 724 C2 738

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1741
Etchings England London 1741
Material
etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751
Subjects
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1741
England > London > 1741

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8815990
Object ID (OID)
10984296

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