Caption title., Text at bottom of page: Bank, India, and South Sea stocks with their several annuities, and all sorts of government securities, bought and sold by commission., The Lewis Walpole Library copy: Address to "Madam" and annotated as number "28998"., With contemporary manuscript notes in ink filling in the blanks in ticket., and For further information, consult library staff.
publish'd September the 16th, 1746, according to act of Parliament.
Call Number:
746.09.16.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A broadside, anti-Jacobite, anti-Catholic and anti-French. The illustration portrays a coat of arms, flanked by a priest and a Highlander; below the etching in letterpress are three columns beginning with the text: "The explanation." The lilies of the French Royal arms changed to upside down frogs and the legitimacy of the Stewart line questioned by the inclusion of the bed-pan child over the priest's shoulder. The text begins: "The three toads are the French Old Coat of Arms, their heads downward, in a sable fields; the coat revers'd denotes treason in perfection. The supporters are a Popish priest on one side in his habit, with a warming-pan on his shoulder, with the lid open and a young child in it. In his right hand is a bloody pen-knife in a posture ready privately to execute the cruelty their religion teaches them to exercise on Protestants ...
Alternative Title:
Traitors coat of arms
Description:
Title engraved at top of image., Three columns of letterpress text below image., A satire against James Charles Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Scotland
Subject (Name):
Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746, History, Coats of arms, Ethnic stereotypes, Frogs, and Priests
To the nobility, gentry, and curious in general, there is to be seen at a commodious apartment
Description:
At head of title: To the nobility, gentry, and curious in general, there is to be seen at a commodious apartment at the Red-Lyon and Three Pigeons, in Castle-Street, near the King's Mews, by one or more, without loss of tine, at one shilling each person, that wonderful phaenomenon [sic] of nature., Dropped head title., Possibly advertisement for Amelia Harlequin (Amelia Lewsam?)., Vignette with royal coat of arms of George II., Similar advertisement in the Lambeth Palace Library, suggests date of 175- (see ESTC T194884). Reference in Royal Society (Great Britain) Philosophical transactions, v. 55, p. 47 suggests a date around 1762., and For further information, consult library staff.
Caption title., A playbill., For further information, consult library staff., and Annotation on verso: "A great and overflowing audience from box pit and galleries /2 price at 5 to 9 tragedy over 5 past 10 and all concluded by a /4[?] feast eleven o'clock with Mr Roberts at Piazza Pit Room."
Publisher:
E. Macleish, printer, 2, Bow-Street, London
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Hoare, Prince, 1755-1834., and Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823.
