The overflowing of the pitt [graphic]

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Title: The overflowing of the pitt [graphic]
Contributor: Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus, 1733-1794, artist.
Sledge, S. Mrs., fl. 1771-1777, publisher.
Published / Created: publish'd as the act directs, 25th June 1771.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for S. Sledge, Printseller in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden
Description: Title from item.
One line of text below title: Oh had we staid & said our pray'rs at home. Pope's Rape of the Lock.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Drury Lane Theatre -- Riots: Wilkites vs. ministerialists, Drury Lane Theatre, March 3, 1770 -- Tickets sellers -- Ticket offices -- Lighting: lanterns -- Canes: tasselled canes -- Ministerialists -- Wilkites -- Playbills -- Propaganda -- Altered quotation from Rape of the lock, iv, 160, by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Allusion to Much ado about nothing by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -- Literature: Allusion to The ladies frolick by James Dance (James Love) (1722-1774) -- Allusion to A word to the wise by Hugh Kelly (1739-1777)? -- Allusion to William Pitt, Earl of Chatham ( 1708-1778) -- Allusion to David Garrick (1717-1779).
Watermark: Fleur-de-lys.
Provenance: Suckling ; March 1959 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.7 x 26.1 cm, on sheet 47 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1771
Etchings England London 1771
Engravings England London 1771
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching & engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1771
England > London > 1771

Access: Public
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