Title etched above image., Date of publication inferred from date of Lord Bute's resignation., Based on no. 4032 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4?, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Games: bob-cherry -- Oeconomy -- Offices: Clerk of the Pells., and Watermark: 1748.
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Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Holland, Stephen Fox, Baron, 1745-1774, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Fox, Henry Edward, 1755-1811, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Grenville, George, 1712-1770
A group of eight locusts is gathered in the foreground; each is numbered and identified in the key below image. A long procession of other locusts in the background is walking on Whitehall by the Banqueting House to Holbein's Gate, while a swarm of more locusts descends on the Banqueting House. Some of them landed on the trees leaving them denuded
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Title from item., Text below title: And [the] Locusts rested in all [the] Coasts of Egypt ..., Key below image, in four columns: 1. Found at St. James's; 2. found in Staffordshire; 3. found in Bloomsbury; 4. found in Lincolns Innfields; 5. the fellon to the fourth; 6. a female locust found at Yarmouth; 7. found near Huntingon; 8. found in Worcestershire., and Watermarks: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
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Subject (Geographic):
Whitehall (London, England), Banqueting House (London, England), and Holbein's Gate (London, England)
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Yarmouth, Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of, 1706-1765