print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.3624
- Title
- Object: The Patriot-Statesman
- Description
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Broadside celebrating Robert Walpole with an etched illustration likening him to Elizabeth I's minster, William Cecil, Baron Burghley, who leads him to the temple of Fame where a statue of a winged figure trumpets his glory. Minerva hovers in the clouds above Walpole; she brandishes a spear and directs rays of light from the gorgon's head on her shield towards figures of Envy, War, Anarchy and Vice. An old man and a youth in shadow at left look on in admiration, while in the background trading ships are sailing; a eulogy below.
Etching and letterpress
- Production date
- 1740
- Dimensions
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Height: 177 millimetres (plate mark)
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Height: 642 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 308 millimetres
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Width: 390 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- According to Allen this is Hayman's only political work. It is one of the few pro-Walpole prints to have appeared, and may have been commissioned by Grosvenor Bedford, one of Walpole's placemen, with whom Hayman was on good terms.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.3624