The two shilling butcher [graphic].

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Title: The two shilling butcher [graphic].
Published / Created: [1747]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Temporary local subject terms: Street scenes -- Buildings: St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden -- Bedford House, Covent Garden -- Architectural details: gate with Sphinxes -- Clock on the church -- Mottoes: 'So passes [the] glory of [the] world -- Trades: butcher -- Trade tools: butcher's implements -- Elections: bribery -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Emblems: cap of liberty -- Clubs: Independent Electors of Westminster -- Poll-books -- Reference to Yorkshire -- Pickpockets -- Nicknames: Two-Shilling Butcher.
Watermark: countermark IV.
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 20.2 x 32.6 cm, on 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): Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771
Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803
Clarges, Thomas, Sir, 1688-1759
Subjects: Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771 > Caricatures and cartoons
Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803 > Caricatures and cartoons
Clarges, Thomas, Sir, 1688-1759 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1747
England > London > 1747

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