Tale of a tub. "Every man has his price!" Sir R. Walpole [graphic]

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Title: Tale of a tub. "Every man has his price!" Sir R. Walpole [graphic]
Creator: Collings, Samuel, printmaker
Contributor: Bentley & Co., publisher.
Published / Created: Jany. 1st, 1791.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published as the act directs, by Bentley & Co.
Abstract: "Dr. Price preaches from a ramshackle tub inscribed 'Political Gunpowder', his arms outstretched to the right; from his pocket projects a document inscribed 'Revolution Toasts'. His sermon hangs over the edge of the tub, the upper sheet headed 'Bind the Kings with chains &c.' The tub rests on a large book: 'Calculations' (an allusion to Price's works on population and finance). Beneath the title is engraved : '"Every Man has his Price!" Sir R. Walpole'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image. Series title above image.
Caricatures published under the pseudonym Annibal Scratch have been attributed to Samuel Collings.
Plate from the Attic miscellany, v. ii, page 118.
Provenance: Suckling; November 1958;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.2 x 11.7 cm, on sheet 22 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1791
Stipple engravings England London 1791
Etchings England London 1791
Material: etching and stipple engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745.
Subject (Topic): Clergy
Subjects: Price, Richard, 1723-1791 > Caricatures and cartoons
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Clergy
England > 1791
England > London > 1791

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