A satire plainly inferring that those in power will represent things as they pelase; for as all occurarences are deduced form them; both the Prince and the people are equally deceived
Description:
Title etched above image., Plate numbered '40' in upper right corner., Four lines of verse below image: In vain to hard'ned vice your wrongs you'll plead / There is but one who will those wrongs redress ..., 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: Addresses: 'Western Address' to George II, 1756., and Mounted to 16 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Oct. 11th, 1756, by Edwards & Darly at the Acorn, facing Hungerford in the 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 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
publishd according to act of Parliament, Oct. 26, 1756.
Call Number:
756.10.26.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
British Lion's back friends detected and Mirror
Description:
Title from item., Publisher identified from address., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publisher's statement following publication date: to be had at the Star on Holborn Hill. Price 6d., Temporary local subject terms: British Lion -- Peacocks -- Addresses -- Shackles., and Mounted to 28 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
T. Kitchin
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed to plate mark., Publisher's statement following publication information: To be had [the] corner of [the] West Passage of [the] Royal Exchange in Castle Alley., Two lines of verse below image: Since honesty is but an empty name, He that cheats the least is most to blame., Temporary local subject terms: Westminster Abbey -- Westminster Quay -- Westminster Hall -- Slang: cole (money)., and Ms. annotations in an unidentified contemporary hand at bottom of sheet identifying subjects.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764
"Satire on the Duke of Newcastle and Lord Barrington suggesting that their conduct of the war is influenced by, respectively, corruption and incompetence, with reference here to the disgrace of General Fowke and Admiral Byng."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Discard
Description:
Title engraved above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four columns of verse below image: I've heard of times (pray God defend us, we're not so good but he may mend us) ..., Temporary local subject terms: Naval uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Literature: Shakespeare., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793, Byng, John, 1704-1757, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Military uniforms, British, Thrones, and Eagles
Title from item., Publisher's statement following publication information: to be had [the] corner of [the] West Passage of the Royal Exchange in Castle Alley. Price 6d., Sheet partially trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Devil -- Mythology: Cerberus., and Corners cropped.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Byng, John, 1704-1757, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
"Satire on the corruption of Newcastle's government suggesting that it accepted French bribes; Byng, crushed by Hardwicke and Fox, is treated with some sympathy."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
French way of catching fools and Oh! How are the mighty fallen?
Description:
Title etched above image., Year of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Bribes -- Pictures amplifying subject: spider-web covered painting of Justice -- Emblems: French fleur-de-lis -- Gambling: EO table., Note by E. Truman filed with the print., and Mounted to 33 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
Sold at the Star on Holborn Hill
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Byng, John, 1704-1757, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
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 item., Plate numbered '50' in upper right corner of image., Two lines of text under image: But in thier [sic] own defence sure they may mount the rostrum and plead thier [sic] pardon from the people., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Pulpits., and Mounted to 14 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Novr. 24, 1756, by Darly & Edwards at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, and Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773
Titles etched above images., Plate numbered '51' in upper right corner., Two images on one plate, each with a title above the image., Six lines of verse under design: No more thy gracious mind perplex / The vulture now no more shall vex ..., 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 13 x 17 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Novr. 24, 1756, by Darly and Edwards at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1720-1764, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762