Common-wealth the Colossus. [graphic]

Description

Title: Common-wealth the Colossus. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Commonwealth
Published / Created: [1766]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold by T. Ewart in the Strand
Description: Title etched at top of image.
Publication date from advertisement in The Public Advertiser, February 7, 1766.
Fifteen lines of verse on a scroll within image: Tell to me, if you are vitty, whose wooden leg is in de City, eh, biene [sic] drole, 'tis de great Pity ...
Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Royal Exchange -- St. Stephen's Chapel -- St. Paul's Cathedral -- Temple at Stowe -- Stilts -- Medical: crutch -- Gout -- Islands: Ireland -- New York -- Caduceus -- Emblems: trumpet of Fame -- Republicans: Lord Chatham, 1766 -- Reference to Lord Chatham's pension.
Watermark: countermark: royal crown with initials GR below.
Mounted to 29 x 39 cm.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.4 x 22.7 cm, on sheet 18 x 23 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1766
Etchings England London 1766
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779
Subjects: Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 > Caricatures and cartoons
Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1766
England > London > 1766

Access: Public
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