A policy for the Three-Thumb Assurance Office of St. A- W- [graphic].

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Title: A policy for the Three-Thumb Assurance Office of St. A- W- [graphic].
Alternative Title: Policy for the Three-thumb Assurance Office of St. Anne's, Westminster
Published / Created: [1745?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Publication date from an unverified card catalog record. Dated in British Museum catalogue: ca. 1770.
Twelve lines of verse below image: A significant justice, a burgess and stump, their sap-sculls together had lay'd ...
Temporary local subject terms: Elections: St. Anne's Parish, Westminster -- St. Anne's Parish, Westminster: allusion to insurance and its disposition -- Thumbs: tyrannical thumbs of the City Companies -- Gallows -- City Companies: Barbers -- City Companies: Pewterers -- City Companies: Carpenters -- Emblems: thumbs as City Companies tyranny -- Allusion to assurance offices -- Poll-books -- Poll-clerks -- Allusion to voters' freedom -- Tools: barbers' implements -- Tools: pewterers' implements -- Tools: carpenters' implements -- Hallmarks: pewterer's 'touch'.
Watermark: Pro patria.
Provenance: Alan Thomas for W.S. Lewis, Christie's October 21, 1965, lot 33; November 1965; Major Sir Charles Blackett Collection.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20.3 x 15.6 cm, on sheet 33 x 20 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1745
Etchings England London 1745
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1745
England > London > 1745

Access: Public
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