A medley of engraved representations of several prints laid on top of others. The largest print, at the bottom of the pile, and so partially obscured, is a portrait of "Sir Samuel Shamke, Kt. and High Churchman of [the] city of London." He is surrounded by the four knaves from a set of playing cards and a picture of an ass. Four other prints on top of the portrait are: "Tory Tom and his mistress a carouseing", "A blind Tory leading his blind brother", "Jack Highchurch in the stocks", and "A Tory's sneaking submission to a Whig". The title of this print comes from the fifth print in lower left
Alternative Title:
Answer to the Whigs medley
Description:
Title from image of engraved print in lower left corner., A response to "The Whigs Medley, by G.B." published in 1711., Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet; mounted to 46 x 34 cm., and Watermark.
A medley of engraved representations of several prints laid on top of others. The largest print, at the bottom of the pile, and so partially obscured, is identified by a banner at the top that reads "The three false bretherns" and are identified below as Daniel [Defoe], the Pope and the devil. Other prints laying on top include "A deformed head in the pillory", a portrait of Oliver Cromwell, two playing cards, "A Whig & Tory a wrestling", "On the calves head feast".
Alternative Title:
Whigs medley
Description:
Title from engraved image of a plate in lower right portion of image; engraver's monogram from image in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet; mounted to 44 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 and Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
