Title from item., Publisher identified from address., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Ten lines of verse in two columns below image: While Tencin spins, like Atropos, his thread ..., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Where is 50 sorts., For discussion of this print see the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Frederick George Stephens, v. 3, note to no. 2606., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Holland as a headless person with 7 hands -- Spinning wheels -- Bags of goods -- Smuggling -- Archers' bows -- Shears -- Spindles -- Jacobite plot -- Boxes of Dutch tea -- Bales of English wool., and Watermark: countermark IV.
Publisher:
Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Garden
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, and Tencin, Pierre Guérin de, 1679-1758
Title etched above image., Plate numbered '76' in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Inscription below image: Mene tekel., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., Copy in reverse of No. 3676 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: scales of Justice.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Elizabeth, Empress of Russia, 1709-1762, Adolf Fredrik, King of Sweden, 1710-1771, Ferdinand VI, King of Spain, 1713-1759, Augustus III, King of Poland, 1696-1763, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, and Karl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg, 1728-1793
A medley of representations of newspapers, playing cards, and letters (To Mr. Geo. Bickham, engraver & drawing mar. ...). The newspaper ornament includes the figure of Cardinal Fleury who grasps a label "Dunkirk". George II is depicted as the King of Diamonds while his favorite Sophia Walmoden, Countess of Yarmouth is shown as the Queen of Diamonds. Sir Robert Walple's face is shown as the Knave of Diamonds. The creed is in the form of a rebus
Alternative Title:
Champion, or Evening advertiser and His political creed
Description:
Title engraved within image., Title of the medley: His political creed., Date from British Museum catalogue., Original imprint mostly burnished, but legible: "Sold at [the] Blackmoors Head, Strand, Sept. 30 1744.", and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France, Great Britain., Great Britain, and France.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, and Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
Title from item., Date of publication based on subject of satire., Temporary local subject terms: Games: shuttlecock., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Churchill, Mary Walpole, Lady, 1725?-1801, Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Duke of, 1682-1761, and Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765
Title from item., Date of publication based on subject of satire., Temporary local subject terms: Games: shuttlecock., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Churchill, Mary Walpole, Lady, 1725?-1801, Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Duke of, 1682-1761, and Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765
Title from item., The 'u' in 'conduct' etched backwards., Publisher tentatively attributed to Bickham in an unverified card catalog record., Publication place and date inferred from British Museum catalogue., Twelve lines of verse in two columns below image: O England, how revolving is thy state! How few thy blessings! How severe thy fate ..., Temporary local subject terms: Britannia (Symbolic character) as St. Erasmus -- Martyrdom of St. Erasmus -- Dissections -- Emblems: the White Horse of Hanover -- Baron Ilton., and Watermark: countermark IV.
Publisher:
G. Bickham?
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Close-stool -- Clyster-pipe., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Philip V, King of Spain, 1683-1746, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Augustus III, King of Poland, 1696-1763, Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, 1697-1745, Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, and Heinsius, Anthonie, 1641-1720
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Close-stool -- Clyster-pipe., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780, Philip V, King of Spain, 1683-1746, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Augustus III, King of Poland, 1696-1763, Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, 1697-1745, Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, and Heinsius, Anthonie, 1641-1720
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 'Price 6d.', and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to the geese of the Capitol -- Emblems: the White Horse of Hanover.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
