Harlequin [graphic].

Description

Title: Harlequin [graphic].
Published / Created: [1768]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title engraved above image.
Six lines of verse below image: The man in graver tragick known (though his best part long since was done) ...
Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 2 (1768), frontispiece for January issue.
Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Harlequin -- Devil -- Cap of liberty --Staff of maintenance -- Literature: quotation from Written in the beginning of Mazeray's History of France, by Matthew Prior, 1664-1721.
Mounted to 37 x 28 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 18.9 x 12.7 cm, on sheet 23 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1768
Periodical illustrations
Etchings England London 1768
Material: etching with stipple engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subjects: Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1768
England > London > 1768

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