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Creator:: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
Published / Created:: [1793]
Call Number:: Drawings D574 no. 5 Box D117
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A exciseman stands in profile facing to the left. His lower lip protrudes, and his chest is thrown out
Description:: Title inscribed in ink, lower right: Jack in office.
Subject (Topic):: Government officials, Excise tax, Inkstands, and Taxes
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Jack in office [art original].

Published / Created:: [circa 1733]
Call Number:: 733.03.14.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Satire on the defeat of the Excise Bill. In the foreground, on the left, stands Justice trampling on Oppression, in her scales papers lettered, "Magna Charta", "City Petition" and "204" (the number of members of parliament who voted against the Bill)...
Alternative Title:: Glorious CCIIII and Glorious 204
Description:: Title from item.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):: Excise tax, Tobacco taxation, Internal revenue, Allegories, and Justice
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The noble stand, or, The glorious CCIIII [graphic].