The constitution card The lyon of [the] sea ; The French dressers, or, England made odious. [graphic]

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Title: The constitution card The lyon of [the] sea ; The French dressers, or, England made odious. [graphic]
Published / Created: [1756]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically
Description: Titles from items.
Caption under top design: --well done quoth Whackum.
Caption under center design: Mores homines.
Two lines of verse below bottom design: And shall the substitutes of power our Genius thus bedecks ...
Copies of, nos. 3398, 3493, and 3543 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Temporary local subject terms: Money: bag of money -- Pictures amplifying subject: hawk attacking cock -- Newcastle Administration -- Axes -- Signboards: inn sign -- Blazing comet -- Masks -- Satire on Admiralty -- Royal die and dice box -- Emblems: anchor -- Pictures amplifying subject: EO table -- Clubs: allusion to White's Club -- Animals: sea-lions -- Trades: fishwomen -- Female dress: French dress, ca. 1756 -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Containers: fishwoman's tub for pickled salmon.
Provenance: Suckling.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 19.7 x 9.8 cm, on sheet 27 x 13 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1756
Etchings England London 1756
Playing cards England 1756
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Subject (Topic): Britannia (Symbolic character)
Gallows
Gambling
Subjects: Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762 > Caricatures and cartoons
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774 > Caricatures and cartoons
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 > Caricatures and cartoons
Britannia (Symbolic character)
Gallows
Gambling
England > 1756
England > London > 1756

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