A skit on Britain [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- A skit on Britain [graphic]
- Creator
- Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, printmaker
- Contributor
- Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [1741]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Sold at [the] Blackmoors Head against Surry Street in [the] Strand
- Abstract
-
Four designs enclosed by scrolls, with six lines of verse inscribed below two top and bottom left design, and eight lines of verse inscribed below bottom right design
- Description
-
Title from item.
Printmaker supplied by curator.
George Bickham identified as the publisher from address in imprint.
'Price 1s.'
Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Hospital for Foundlings -- Castles -- Ships: ships shelling shoreline fortifications -- Ships: ships for sale, with brooms at mastheads -- Placemen -- Broad-bottoms -- Bills: excise tax, 1741 -- Guns: cannon -- Birds: doves -- Flags -- Masks: mask with dagger -- Churches: St. Paul's -- Savoyards -- Sun: eclipse -- Moon -- Treaties -- Webs: spider web -- Symbols: hands of Providence -- Wars: war with Spain, 1739 -- Animals: wolf -- Animals: cat -- Animals: mice -- Heads: grotesque head -- Emblems: German eagle -- Personifications: Holland as an infant in cradle holding heraldic arrows -- Emblematic representations: English and French dogs pouncing on Spanish dogs -- Personifications: hand-tied Justice -- Emblems: French fox -- Devil holding scroll -- Devil laughing -- Devil flying kite -- Devil fishing -- Maps: Cartegna -- Maps: England -- Maps: Havana -- Maps: capture of Porto Bello, November 22, 1739 -- Joseph Edward, Count Gage, 1678?-1753?
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 27.3 x 39.8 cm, on sheet 36 x 44.9 cm
- 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)
-
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743 - Subjects
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Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788 > Caricatures and cartoons
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 > Caricatures and cartoons
Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1741
England > London > 1741
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8826334
- Object ID (OID)
- 10984326