Pillers of the state The old woman and her ass, a fable ; [The fox in the pit]. [graphic][1756]engTitle from item.Three playing card designs on one plate, arranged vertically.Title of the bottom design assigned by cataloger from its original version or copy (see Stephens 3399).Caption under top image: Peachum and Lockit.Four lines of verse below center image: There lives a report that in Asias [sic] hot clime, was an ass turn'd to Stone for a horrible crime ...Four line quote from Bible below bottom design: And whosoever will not do [the] law of thy God & [the] law of [the] king ...Copies of, from top, nos. 3371, 3497, and 3399 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: French cock -- Quizzing glasses -- Allusion to French influence -- Gallows -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Webs: cobweb -- Asses -- Tubs: fishwoman's tub for picked salmon -- Allusion to Billingsgate -- Allusion to House of Commons, Ways and Means -- Taxes: 1756 -- Military: payment to Hanoverian Hessians, 1756 -- Fall of the Newcastle Administration -- Literature: allusion to the beggar's opera, by John Gay, 1685-1732 -- Literature: quotation from the fable, The old woman and her ass -- Bible: quotation from Ezra, ch.vii.v.26, 27.