Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis., Dedication: To the independent El---rs of W---------- [i.e., electors of Westminster]., P. Murray Hill; May 1957; Acquisitions no.: 957-5-3-11., Publication date in Stephens: 1744., Seven lines of text below image: Your vote & interest are desir'd at [the] next general election for an independent nobleman ..., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Whitehall, London -- Genealogy -- Expressions of speech: Hanover Turnips -- Electors: independents -- Allusion to Westminster Hall -- Allusion to Charing Cross -- Westminster Elections, 1741 -- Personfications: Fame -- Monuments., Title engraved above image., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
Publisher:
[s.n.]
Subject (Topic):
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 and Egmont, John Perceval, Earl of, 1711-1770
Plate lettered in the top center 'F': Reverse copies of details from figures from the lower left corner of Hogarth's "Beer Street". Numbered 1: The fat butcher sits laughing (lower right) with a tankard of ale barely visible in his right hand. Standing above and behind him is the cooper or blacksmith wearing a cap and an apron with a pair of tongs at his waist. In his left hand he holds a large tankard of ale with a large head of foam.
Alternative Title:
Beer Street.
Description:
Maggs; December 1963; Acquisitions no.: 963-12-3., Mounted with one other print. To view other title, search by call number: Hogarth 787.00.00.46, Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., Printmaker and date from other prints in this series in the British Museum online catalogue., and Title devised by cataloger.