The [Cha]mpion, or Even[ing] adver[tiser] [graphic]

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Title: The [Cha]mpion, or Even[ing] adver[tiser] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Champion, or Evening advertiser
His political creed
Published / Created: [not before 30 September 1744]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A medley of representations of newspapers, playing cards, and letters (To Mr. Geo. Bickham, engraver & drawing mar. ...). The newspaper ornament includes the figure of Cardinal Fleury who grasps a label "Dunkirk". George II is depicted as the King of Diamonds while his favorite Sophia Walmoden, Countess of Yarmouth is shown as the Queen of Diamonds. Sir Robert Walple's face is shown as the Knave of Diamonds. The creed is in the form of a rebus
Description: Title engraved within image.
Title of the medley: His political creed.
Date from British Museum catalogue.
Original imprint mostly burnished, but legible: "Sold at [the] Blackmoors Head, Strand, Sept. 30 1744."
With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; May 1957; Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 29.3 x 36.3 cm, on sheet 36.0 x 45.1 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1744
Rebuses
Engravings England London 1744
Material: engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): France
Great Britain.
Great Britain
France.
Subject (Name): George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743
Subject (Topic): Foreign relations
Subjects: George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760 > Caricatures and cartoons
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743 > Caricatures and cartoons
France > Foreign relations > Great Britain
Great Britain > Foreign relations > France
England > 1744
England > London > 1744

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