<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Destructive cannon Refus'd by foreigners ; Foreigners think this too dangerous. [graphic]</dc:title><dc:date>[1756]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>Title from item.</dc:description><dc:description>Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically.</dc:description><dc:description>Two lines of text below top design: This piece of the train found to do greater execution the more its wore ...</dc:description><dc:description>Two lines of text below center design: This piece drives all before it &amp; acts equally from either end ...</dc:description><dc:description>Two lines of text below bottom design: This piece kill'd two persons in proving ...</dc:description><dc:description>Enlarged and reversed copy of Cannon refus'd by foreigners as too destructive, i.e., No. 3490 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.</dc:description><dc:description>Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Ways and Means, 1756 -- Personifications: Liberty as a gun-carriage -- Personifications: Property as gun-carriage -- Personifications: heterodox clergyman as a gun-carriage -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Guns: cannon -- Maps: map of England -- Money: coins as wheels -- Gun-carriage -- Ammunition: sacks of 'Luxury', 'Venality', 'Corruption' -- Ammunition: trunks of 'Pride', 'Avarice' -- Ammunition: books of 'Priestcraft', 'Heresy' -- Bills: Money Bill, 1756 -- Emblems: trade as a ship -- Taxes: 1756 -- Spears: Britannia's broken spear -- Bill: Marriage bill, 1756 -- Buildings: churches -- Bible --Allusion to the Duke of Newcastle -- Allusion to Lord Hardwicke.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>