A late epistle to Mr. C------d.

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Title: A late epistle to Mr. C------d.
Alternative Title: Late epistle to Mr. Cleveland
Cabin council
Contributor: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Edwards, George, 1694-1773, publisher.
Published / Created: [1756]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Edwards & Darly
Description: Title from first line of letterpress below image.
Publisher identified from address.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
"To be had at the Acorn facing Hungerford Market in the Strand."--Bottom of sheet.
"Pr. 6d."--Bottom of plate.
Broadside poem illustrated with etching at top of sheet. Title on etching: Cabin council.
Mock paraphrase of Admiral Byng's letter to John Cleveland, Admiralty.
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: cabin on Ramillies (admiral's ship) -- Military uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Naval uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Furnishings: porcelain -- Guns: cannons -- 2nd Earl of Effingham -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Henry IV -- Literature: quotation from Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1612-1680.
Watermark: countermark I V.
Provenance: Maggs; September 1957; From Minto Wilson collection. Mat with his notes removed in 1965.
Extent: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : plate mark 15.5 x 18.9 cm, on sheet 37 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1756
Satires
Broadsides
Etchings England London 1756
Watermarks (Paper) I V.
Material: 1 etching : and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: text and still image
Subject (Name): Byng, John, 1704-1757
Cornwallis, Edward, 1713-1776
Subjects: Byng, John, 1704-1757 > Caricatures and cartoons
Cornwallis, Edward, 1713-1776 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1756
England > London > 1756
I V.
Wilson, Minto > Ownership

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