The old scourge return'd to barrels [graphic].

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Title: The old scourge return'd to barrels [graphic].
Alternative Title: Old scourge returned to barrels
Published / Created: [1747?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Two lines of verse, enclosed on the right with a bracket and text: Brave boys!, below image: And ten times a day whip the barrels. And ten times a day whip there barrels.
Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: 4th Foot Regiment -- Military regiments: 4th Foot -- Military regiments: drummer of the 4th Foot -- Weapons: halberds -- Edinburgh: Edinburgh Castle -- Personifications: Demon of Discord -- Trades: gin seller -- Barrels -- Battles: reference to the Battle of Culloden, 1746 -- Whips -- Literature: The Devil to pay, by Charles Coffey, d. 1745 -- Gen. William Barrel, d. 1749.
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 20.1 x 33.1 cm, on sheet 24 x 38 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1747
Etchings England London 1747
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Rich, Robert, Sir, 1717?-1785
Coffey, Charles, -1745.
Subject (Topic): Parodies, imitations, etc
Subjects: Rich, Robert, Sir, 1717?-1785 > Caricatures and cartoons
Coffey, Charles, -1745 > Parodies, imitations, etc
England > 1747
England > London > 1747

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