The grumblers of Great Britain a new humorous political song / [graphic]

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Title: The grumblers of Great Britain a new humorous political song / [graphic]
Contributor: Tringham, William, fl. 1734-1791, publisher.
Published / Created: publish'd according to act of Parliament, Septr. 15, 1762.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold by W. Tringham, engraver in Castle Alley, Royal Exchange, and at the print shop under St. Dunstan's Church ; and by all the print and pamphlet shops
Abstract: "A broadside satirising Lord Bute's mission to Paris to arrange peace with France, disputed by two patrons of the fictitious "Bedford Coffee-House"; with an etching showing the interior of a coffee-house, two gentlemen seated at a table, on the table various newspapers and a tray with a hot chocolate pot, one gentleman pouring liquid from the cup into the saucer; with engraved inscriptions, speech bubbles, and with letterpress title and verses in two columns, and with one vertical segment of type ornament"--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Letterpress broadside song, illustrated with etching at top of sheet (plate mark 155 x 200 mm).
A song with nine stanzas in two columns separated with decorative border: Good people attend (if you can but spare time), to a grumblig poet, who grumbles in rhyme ...
Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Provenance: Print Shop; November 1958;
Extent: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : 36 x 22 cm
Language: English

Genre: Poetry
Satires (Visual works) England 1762
Etchings England London 1762
Broadsides England 1762
Songs England 1762
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: 1 etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: text and still image
Subject (Topic): Coffeehouses
Drinking vessels
Newspapers
Subjects: Treaty of Paris (1763 February 10) > Poetry
Coffeehouses
Drinking vessels
Newspapers
England > 1762
England > London > 1762

Access: Public
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