The stature of a great man, or, The English colossus [graphic] / G. B-k-h sculp.

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Title: The stature of a great man, or, The English colossus [graphic] / G. B-k-h sculp.
Alternative Title: English colossus
Creator: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771
Published / Created: to [the] act, 1740
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: [s.n.]
Description: Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis.
Five lines of text titled "Description" below verse: The Colossus at Rhodes, a stature of [the] Sun 70 cubits high ...
P. Murray Hill; May 1957; Acquisitions no.: 957-5-3-1.
Seven lines of verse in two columns below title: Why man, he doth bestride [the] narrow world ... Shakespeare.
Temporary local subject terms: Cuba -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare -- Colossus -- Cardinal Fleury as a fox.
Title from item.
With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Extent: 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 32.6 x 19.9 cm, on sheet 38 x 24 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been no.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings -- England -- London -- 1740
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1740
Watermarks (Paper)
Resource Type: Prints & Photographs
Subject (Topic): Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745

Access: Public
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Orbis Record: 8850669
Object ID (OID): 10984293
More Information: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2458