Titles from items., Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically., Two lines of verse below top design: The ass of Balaam through oppression spoke our Stone-Ase of oppression brings the yoke., Caption below center design: Absolute obedience my brethren ; murmering [sic] against your superiors is rebellion and consumate impudence., Caption below bottom design: Justice has leaden feet but iron claws., None of designs recorded in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Angels -- Asses -- Bible: nos. 22.21-35 -- Human body: mechanical human heart -- Money: bags of money -- Bellows -- British Lion -- Personifications: figure of Justice -- Balances -- Allusion to Gibraltar -- Treasury: Sinking Fund -- Battles: allusion to the Battle of Minorca, Port Mahon, 20 May 1756.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Titles etched above images., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Sticks: wand -- Bag of secret service money -- Newcastle's bribery, 1756 -- Parliament: corruption of Parliament by Newcastle -- Newcastle Administration -- Allusion to William, Baron Blakeney, 1672-1761 -- Interiors: forge -- Tools: farrier's tools -- Forgery: Admiral Byng as victim of forgery -- Trials: allusion to Admiral Byng's court-martial for neglect of duty -- Money for Hanover -- Addresses: subsidiary treaties -- Scales: weighing addresses against money -- Taxes: 1756.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Byng, John, 1704-1757, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754, and Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773
Subject (Topic):
Petitions, Bribery, Forge shops, Scales, Fools' caps, and Money
Britanias pocket pickd by mercenaries, Britanias pocket picked by mercenaries, and Britannia's pocket picked by mercenaries
Description:
Titles etched below each image., Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically., and None of designs recorded in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Elizabeth, Empress of Russia, 1709-1762, Augustus III, King of Poland, 1696-1763, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Byng, John, 1704-1757, and Mingotti, Regina, 1722-1808.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Ammunition, Barrels, Cannons, Crowns, Eagles, Eclipses, Flags, British, Mercenaries (Soldiers), Musical instruments, National emblems, French, German, and Scepters
Refus'd by foreigners, Refused by foreigners, and Foreigners think this too dangerous
Description:
Title from item., Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically., Two lines of text below top design: This piece of the train found to do greater execution the more its wore ..., Two lines of text below center design: This piece drives all before it & acts equally from either end ..., Two lines of text below bottom design: This piece kill'd two persons in proving ..., Enlarged and reversed copy of Cannon refus'd by foreigners as too destructive, i.e., No. 3490 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Ways and Means, 1756 -- Personifications: Liberty as a gun-carriage -- Personifications: Property as gun-carriage -- Personifications: heterodox clergyman as a gun-carriage -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Guns: cannon -- Maps: map of England -- Money: coins as wheels -- Gun-carriage -- Ammunition: sacks of 'Luxury', 'Venality', 'Corruption' -- Ammunition: trunks of 'Pride', 'Avarice' -- Ammunition: books of 'Priestcraft', 'Heresy' -- Bills: Money Bill, 1756 -- Emblems: trade as a ship -- Taxes: 1756 -- Spears: Britannia's broken spear -- Bill: Marriage bill, 1756 -- Buildings: churches -- Bible --Allusion to the Duke of Newcastle -- Allusion to Lord Hardwicke.
Old woman and her ass, a fable, Fox in the pit, and Pillars of the state
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Title from item., Three playing card designs on one plate, arranged vertically., Title of the bottom design assigned by cataloger from its original version or copy (see Stephens 3399)., Caption under top image: Peachum and Lockit., Four lines of verse below center image: There lives a report that in Asias [sic] hot clime, was an ass turn'd to Stone for a horrible crime ..., Four line quote from Bible below bottom design: And whosoever will not do [the] law of thy God & [the] law of [the] king ..., Copies of, from top, nos. 3371, 3497, and 3399 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: French cock -- Quizzing glasses -- Allusion to French influence -- Gallows -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Webs: cobweb -- Asses -- Tubs: fishwoman's tub for picked salmon -- Allusion to Billingsgate -- Allusion to House of Commons, Ways and Means -- Taxes: 1756 -- Military: payment to Hanoverian Hessians, 1756 -- Fall of the Newcastle Administration -- Literature: allusion to the beggar's opera, by John Gay, 1685-1732 -- Literature: quotation from the fable, The old woman and her ass -- Bible: quotation from Ezra, ch.vii.v.26, 27.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Title from item., Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged horizontally, separately titled., Title of the center design assigned by cataloger from its original. See Stephens 3342., Four lines of verse below title in left design: Aquilus can nurse his own, on other birds he'll prey ..., Six lines of verse below center desgin: Oh! Shame to nature, shame to common sense. must Britain for its own defence ..., Five lines of explanatory description below right design: 1.1. Two heads imperfect & of a black hew suppos'd to have been wood ..., Copies of, from left, nos. 3502, 3342, and 3417 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Justice -- Personifications: Loyalty -- Pictures amplifying subject: images of Justice and Loyalty hung upside down -- Cap of Liberty -- Wigs: Lord Chancellor's wig -- Reference to French influence -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Newcastle Administration --Birds: vulture -- Money: bags of money -- Bible: Revers'd Bible -- Literature: quotation from Horace's Ars poetica, 5 -- Military: chained English soldiers -- Monuments -- Military: Hanoverian Hessians -- Plinths -- Swords: broken swords -- Societies: reference to Society of Antiquarians.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773
Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically
Description:
Titles from items., Caption under top design: --well done quoth Whackum., Caption under center design: Mores homines., Two lines of verse below bottom design: And shall the substitutes of power our Genius thus bedecks ..., Copies of, nos. 3398, 3493, and 3543 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Money: bag of money -- Pictures amplifying subject: hawk attacking cock -- Newcastle Administration -- Axes -- Signboards: inn sign -- Blazing comet -- Masks -- Satire on Admiralty -- Royal die and dice box -- Emblems: anchor -- Pictures amplifying subject: EO table -- Clubs: allusion to White's Club -- Animals: sea-lions -- Trades: fishwomen -- Female dress: French dress, ca. 1756 -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Containers: fishwoman's tub for pickled salmon.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Gallows, and Gambling
