Great Britain and Ireland's yawn [graphic].

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Title: Great Britain and Ireland's yawn [graphic].
Contributor: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, publisher.
Published / Created: [11 October 1743]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Octor. 11th 1743, publish'd by G. Bickham in May's Buildings
Abstract: A large, full-face portrait of Sir Robert Walpole yawning violently
Description: Title engraved below image.
Fourteen lines of verse in two columns below title: More he had said, but yawn'd. All nature nods: What mortal can resist the yawn of gods? ... Dunciad.
For a similar print. Cf. No. 2607 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
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 36.4 x 25.7 cm, on sheet 40.0 x 35.6 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1743
Engravings England London 1743
Material: engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Subject (Topic): Yawning
Subjects: Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 > Caricatures and cartoons
Yawning
England > 1743
England > London > 1743

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