Nos numerus sumus [graphic]

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Title: Nos numerus sumus [graphic]
Published / Created: according to act of Parliament, June 6th 1747.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker's name probably a pseudonym.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on the right.
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: hall at Oxford -- Thrones -- Clergy -- Sticks: wands -- Male dress: astronomer's Zodiac belt -- Hats: fool's cap -- Devil -- Smoking: bubble pipe -- Military uniforms: officer's uniform -- Furnishings: pedestals -- Satyrs -- Masks -- Curtains -- Writing implements: quills and inkwell -- Furniture: low table -- Lists -- Clubs: White Horse Club -- Literature: quotation from Horace's Epistles, i, ii.27 -- Sermons -- Allusion to the Jacobite Rebellion, 1745.
Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Provenance: Alan Thomas for W.S. Lewis, Christie's October 21, 1965, lot 33; November 1965; Major Sir Charles Blackett Collection.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24 x 38 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1747
Etchings England London 1747
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Bradley, James, 1693?-1762
Hoadly, Benjamin, 1676-1761
Brown, Joseph, 1700-17667
Subjects: Bradley, James, 1693?-1762 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hoadly, Benjamin, 1676-1761 > Caricatures and cartoons
Brown, Joseph, 1700-17667 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1747
England > London > 1747

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