Ayliffe's ghost, or, The fox stinks worse than ever a dismal ditty / [graphic]

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Title: Ayliffe's ghost, or, The fox stinks worse than ever a dismal ditty / [graphic]
Alternative Title: Fox stinks worse than ever
Contributor: Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764.
Sumpter, Edward, active 1763-1787, publisher.
Published / Created: [April 1763]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold by E. Sumpter, three doors from Shoe Lane, Fleet Street
Description: Title from item.
Imprint from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint.
Illustration to a poem of the same title by Charles Churchill.
Two columns of verse, divided vertically by a decorative border: Recitative. Who has not heard of Reynard's crafty tricks, his pride, his rapine, and his politicks; his ways and means to plunder K--- and S---e ...
Cf. No. 4038 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.4.
Temporary local subject terms: Apparitions -- Nightmares -- Interiors: bedroom -- Chamberpots -- Crimes: reference to Ayliffe's forgery -- Reference to Henry Fox's alleged fraud of public money.
Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Mounted to 39 x 26 cm.
Extent: 1 print : 37 x 23 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been no.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1763
Etchings England London 1763
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ;
Subject (Name): Ayliffe, John
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Subjects: Ayliffe, John > Caricatures and cartoons
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1763
England > London > 1763

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