Risum teneatis amici [The 2 H, H's] ; Naturae lusus, a curious petri-faction dedicated to Society of Antiquarians. [graphic][1756]engTitle from item.Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged horizontally, separately titled.Title of the center design assigned by cataloger from its original. See Stephens 3342.Four lines of verse below title in left design: Aquilus can nurse his own, on other birds he'll prey ...Six lines of verse below center desgin: Oh! Shame to nature, shame to common sense. must Britain for its own defence ...Five lines of explanatory description below right design: 1.1. Two heads imperfect & of a black hew suppos'd to have been wood ...Copies of, from left, nos. 3502, 3342, and 3417 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: Justice -- Personifications: Loyalty -- Pictures amplifying subject: images of Justice and Loyalty hung upside down -- Cap of Liberty -- Wigs: Lord Chancellor's wig -- Reference to French influence -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Newcastle Administration --Birds: vulture -- Money: bags of money -- Bible: Revers'd Bible -- Literature: quotation from Horace's Ars poetica, 5 -- Military: chained English soldiers -- Monuments -- Military: Hanoverian Hessians -- Plinths -- Swords: broken swords -- Societies: reference to Society of Antiquarians.