print;
broadside;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.3415
- Title
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Object: The Three Champions.
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Object: The British Censor
- Description
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A broadside satirising three London journalists, here considered as seditious, and the Whigs; with an engraving showing three portraits in ovals, at the top that of Isaac Bickerstaff, aka Sir Richard Steele, at the bottom Daniel Defoe and George Ridpath, the latter two identified by the names of their journals, "The Review" and "The Observator"; at the sides weapons, pillory, stocks, banners, etc. Eith engraved title and inscriptions, and with letterpress title and verses in two columns. (London, Baker; [ca.1710])
- Production date
- 1710 (ca)
- Dimensions
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Height: 206 millimetres (engraving)
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Height: 363 millimetres (printed area)
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Width: 154 millimetres (engraving)
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Width: 204 millimetres (printed area)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- BM Satires gives no reason for dating this 1709.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.3415
