The modern Leviathan!! [graphic].

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Title: The modern Leviathan!! [graphic].
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [8 March 1796]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. March 8, 1796, by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker identified in British Museum catalogue.
Four lines of text below title: The Leviathan among all creatures of the Crown ...
Printseller's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Temporary local subject terms: Pensions: Edmund Burke's pension -- Mourning -- Monsters -- Tombstones -- Literature: quotation from Burke's Letter to a Noble Lord.
Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials G R below.
Provenance: Walter Schatzki ; Feb. 1961;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 28.5 x 39.5 cm, on sheet 30 x 43 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1796
Etchings England London 1796
Watermarks (Paper) G R.
Publishers' advertisements
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802
Subjects: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1796
England > London > 1796
G R.

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