Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Racing -- Emblems: Dragon as City of London -- British Lion -- Military uniforms: Grenadier's uniform.
Title from caption below image., Plate numbered '26' in upper right corner., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Bills: the Marriage Act, 1756 -- Reference to France -- Reference to Lord Anson., and Mounted to 19 x 28 cm.
Title from item., Plate numbered '44' in upper right corner of image., Two lines of verse below image: No matter let merrit plead in vain, he gains his end who tugs the chain., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Thomas Villiers -- John, Viscount Bateman -- Richard Edgcumbe -- John Cleveland., and Mounted to 13 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Nov. 11, 1756, Darly & Edwards facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Bessborough, William Ponsonby, 2d Earl of, 1704-1793, and Rowley, William, Sir, 1690?-1768
Title from first line of text., An engraved letter in the form of rebus., The following words within title are represented by a rebus: 'well' in 'Cromwells' by a well, 'peech' in 'speech' by a peach, to by a toe, ass by a donkey, fox by a fox., Twelve lines of 'speech' in rebus below title: Those [men] t[hat] [love] t[hare] king & count[ry] ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Plate numbered '16' in upper right corner of design., and Mounted to 27 x 21 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Sept. 24, 1756, by Darly & Edwards at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658
Title from item., Plate numbered '43' in upper right corner., Fifteen lines of verse in rebus below image: No soon[er] came [I] un[to] [sticks] / [but] quite convinc'd of [all] our tricks ..., The following words within the quoted verse are represented by a rebus: 'er' in sooner by an ear, I by an eye, 'to' in unto by a toe, sticks by a bunch of sticks, but by a butt, all by an awl., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., and Mounted to 17 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Novr. 4th, 1756, by Edwards & Darly facing Hungerford, Strand
Old woman and her ass, a fable, Fox in the pit, and Pillars of the state
Description:
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., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '19' in upper right corner., Twelve lines of verse in rebus below image: W[hen] [fox] l[i]ke [dog]s infest th[e]s poor land ..., and Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer ... London, 1759.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Title from item., Plate numbered '19' at top., Twelve lines of verse in rebus below image: W[hen] [foxe]s l[i]ke [dog]s infest th[i]s poor land ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Eye glass., and Mounted to 17 x 19 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Oct. 1, 1756, by Edwards & Darly at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Title from caption etched above image., Plate numbered '37' in upper right corner., Four lines of text below image: These figures gem'men & ladaes [sic] are the richest & largest in Europe ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Mr. Punch -- Punch's wife, Joan -- Literature: reference to Bardolph in Shakespeare's Henry IV., and Mounted to 16 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Oct. 15, 1756, by Edwards & Darly at [the] Acorn, facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of text below image: These figures gem'men & ladies are the richest & largest in Europe ..., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., Reversed copy of No. 3394 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: Mr. Punch -- Personifications: Punch's wife, Joan -- Literature: reference to Bardolph in Shakespeare's Henry IV.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
