print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.4101
- Description
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Five prints on one sheet, all concerned with events of 1757, showing figures copied from larger prints: a caricature of Robert Bragge, the art dealer, pushing coins into a large sack (after BM Satires 3647); 'a Medley for the Devil' (a free version of BM Satires 3574) with portraits of Bubb Doddington, the Duke of Cumberland, Henry Fox, Wellbore Ellis, a card lettered '1757/Secret Exp[edition] or a Private Humbug' and other prints arranged as a medley; a caricature of a pope or cardinal thrown from the back of a fox while a well-dressed man looks on (after figures in BM Satires 2441, there representing Cardinal Fleury and a British merchant); a general, possibly Lord Blakeney, riding a bucking lion which holds the fleur-de-lis between its teeth (after a detail of BM Satires 2441, in which the rider is Robert Walpole and the lion holds the tail of the fox copied in the previous print); 'The Devel of a Medley' (another free version of BM Satires 3574) with prints of Britannia wearing a yoke, a French coat of arms, and a back view of Lord Winchilsea, tracts on 'Political Lying' and 'Vacant Places' and other prints arranged as a medley.
Etching
- Production date
- 1757 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 88 millimetres (each image)
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Height: 183 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 59 millimetres (each image)
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Width: 186 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.4101
