Title etched below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- George Grenville, 1712-1770., Mounted to 34 x 45 cm., Watermark., and Subjects identified and other information added on recto in a contemporary hand.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1720-1764, Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
A caricature image in two halves, with two men shown bust-length, the one on the left holding a sheet of paper with the words "Sherriffs return" written on the top; above his head "Corruptly in, he' he' he'". The man on the right is shown crying, his hands balled in fists and in the right hang a paper with the words at top "Return of the Comit[...] House of Commons". Above his head "Black balled out, oh! oh! oh!"
Description:
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: G. R.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 18th, 1805 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Title from item., Two images sided by side on one plate., Another state, with different publisher's name in imprint, of No. 3496 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Temporary local subject terms: Architecture: German palace -- Military uniforms: French soldiers' uniform -- Austria soldiers' uniforms., and Watermark: Britannia(?).
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Jany. 21, 1760, and sold by Wm. Holland under the Royal Exchange
Subject (Name):
Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, and Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1721-1792
