No smuggling, or, The Crown Tea Committee outwitted being a view of all the wise heads sketch'd while they were sitting March [the] 8th & [the] 15th warein was a comical harangue by a Hat Man. [graphic]

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Lewis Walpole Library > No smuggling, or, The Crown Tea Committee outwitted being a view of all the wise heads sketch'd while they were sitting March [the] 8th & [the] 15th warein was a comical harangue by a Hat Man. [graphic]

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Description

Title: No smuggling, or, The Crown Tea Committee outwitted being a view of all the wise heads sketch'd while they were sitting March [the] 8th & [the] 15th warein was a comical harangue by a Hat Man. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Crown Tea Committee outwitted
Published / Created: [1747]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Publication from an unverified card catalog record.
Twelve lines of verse in four columns below image: What a racket was made / By the heads of the trade ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Crimes: reference to smuggling -- Committees: Crown Tea Committee -- Reference to Sir Robert Walpole(?), 1676-1745 -- Reference to Henry Pelham, 1695?-1754.
Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
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 32.7 cm, on sheet 24 x 38 cm
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 747.03.00.04

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1747
Etchings England London 1747
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1747
England > London > 1747

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 8700638
Object ID (OID): 10714411