The scheme disappointed A fruitless sacrifice. [graphic]

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Description

Title
The scheme disappointed A fruitless sacrifice. [graphic]
Alternative Title
Fruitless sacrifice
Published / Created
[1733]
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Description
Title from item.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Two designs, side by side, within a border containing seventeen smaller designs.
Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to 'Carus', fl. 1733 -- Allusion to William Arnall, ca. 1700-1736 -- Nicknames: W. Arnall as 'Francis Walsingham' or 'Mother Osborne' -- Allusion to James Pitt, fl. 1733 -- Nicknames: J. Pitt as 'Fr. Osborne' or 'Mother Osborne' -- Hand of Providence -- Newspapers: allusion to The daily gazeteer -- Journals: Prompter -- Mythology: Acteon as a stag -- Imperial princes as a naked boy -- Implements of torture -- Maps: Naples and Sicily -- Figure of Rome as a nun -- Figure of Germany -- Figure of Scotland -- Britannia -- Shields -- Magna Charta -- Nuns -- Altars -- Pyramids -- Defeat of the excise scheme -- Devils -- Coins -- Dragons -- Harpies -- Mottoes -- Houghton Hall -- Slogans: liberty and property -- Navy: fleet of ships -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis on globe -- Ropes: halter -- Allusion to the sinking fund -- Treaties: Hanover -- Treaties: Seville and Vienna -- Spithead expedition -- Fasces -- Sir Robert Walpole's mistresses as Harpies -- Headsman's axe -- British lion tied by heels -- Sir Robert Walpole as a serpent -- Sir Robert Walpole's French policy, 1733 -- English commerce foundering -- Writing fools -- Unobtainable justice -- Scales tipped by the judge -- Gibbets -- Executions -- Hanged traitors.
Watermark.
Provenance
Alfred Bowditch Collection; Dec. 1966;
Extent
1 print : plate mark 32.5 x 39.2 cm, on sheet 34 x 41 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
733.04.00.01+

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1733
Etchings England London 1733
Watermarks (Paper)
Material
etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Walpole, Maria, Lady, 1701 or 1702-1738
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
Norfolk, Edward Howard, Duke of, 1686-1777
Subjects
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 > Caricatures and cartoons
Walpole, Maria, Lady, 1701 or 1702-1738 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743 > Caricatures and cartoons
Norfolk, Edward Howard, Duke of, 1686-1777 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1733
England > London > 1733

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8988333
Object ID (OID)
10700188

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