Subject Heading: Rowley, William, Sir, 1690?-1768 > Caricatures and cartoons

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Published / Created:: [1756]
Call Number:: 756.00.00.66
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Satire on the alleged corruption of the Lords of the Admiralty; they are shown chained by the nose to Anson, the first Lord (shown as a sea lion) who is in turn chained by the nose to a powerful man who demands preferment for his son."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from item, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., In the British Museum catalogue, it is suggested that the young man in question may be Joshua Rowley, son of the sea lord William Rowley, who was appointed to comman the 'Harwich' in January 1756., Plate numbered '44' in upper right corner., Two lines of verse below title: No matter let merrit plead in vain, he gains his end who tags the chain., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., and Reversed copy of No. 3495 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, England and Wales. Admiralty., and Rowley, William, Sir, 1690?-1768
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Occasional conformity [graphic].

Published / Created:: [11 November 1756]
Call Number:: 756.11.11.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: 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
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Occasional conformity [graphic].