Publick credit [graphic]

Description

Title: Publick credit [graphic]
Creator: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771
Published / Created: October [ the] 18, 1745.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: G. Bickham], May's Buildings, Covent Garden
Abstract: Public credit is depicted as a vigorous young gentleman, nobly-dressed in a Senator's gown and holding a merchant's account book whose cover is printed with the motto "solutus omni faenore" signifying true credit free from interest. The griffin below signifies safe custody. In the background figures representing Popery, Rebellion, and Slander, all of which seem to threaten Publick Credit are thwarted as is the fox, an emblem of cunning and deceit. Both the text below describing the image and the image above are enclosed in two separate scroll-formed frames; in the center of the scroll at the top is a mask and a dagger. Probably a response to Robert Walpole's Some considerations concerning the publick funds
Description: Title engraved in image.
Statement of responsibility and place and date of publication engraved in one line below explanatory text.
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed with platemark.
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Provenance: Andrew Edmunds; Sept. 2011.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 33 x 20. 3 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Political cartoons
Engravings England London 1745
Material: engraving ;
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Subject (Name): Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745.
Subject (Topic): Finance, Public
Debts, Public
Subjects: Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Finance, Public > Great Britain
Debts, Public > Great Britain
England > London > 1745

Access: Public
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