[Frontispiece to The negotiators, or, Don Diego brought to reason. An excellent new ballad] [graphic].

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Title: [Frontispiece to The negotiators, or, Don Diego brought to reason. An excellent new ballad] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Negotiators, or, Don Diego brought to reason
Don Diego brought to reason
Published / Created: [1738]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: R. Thompson
Abstract: "Satirical ballad on the unwillingness of the British government to go to war with Spain with a woodcut illustration derived from British Museum Satires No. 2355 showing Robert Walpole holding the tail of the British Lion which holds a staff topped by a crown. The lion is apparently attempting to lunge at a Spaniard holding a whip who has harnessed three English sailors to a cart."--British Museum catalogue
Description: Title and publication information from British Museum catalogue.
Extent: 1 print : 25 x 35 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1738
Woodcuts England London 1738
Material: woodcut ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757
Subject (Topic): Whips
Carts & wagons
Lions
Sailors
Staffs (Sticks)
Subjects: Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 > Caricatures and cartoons
Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757 > Caricatures and cartoons
Whips
Carts & wagons
Lions
Sailors
Staffs (Sticks)
England > 1738
England > London > 1738

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