Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '48' in upper right corner of design., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Gibbets., and Munted to 17 x 22 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Title etched above image., Plate numbered '32' in upper right corner., Two lines of music with text loosely printed below them: Britons, strike home. Revenge, revenge your country's wrongs., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Fall of the Newcastle Administration -- The Duke of Newcastle as salmon., and Mounted to 17 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
To be had at Edwards and Darlys facing Hungerford in the Strand
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Brave soldier out witted the cowardly sailor, Brave soldier outwitted the cowardly sailor, and Byng's last effort
Description:
Title etched above image., Plate numbered '8' in upper right corner., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Greenwich Hospital., and Mounted to 18 x 20 cm.
Title etched at top of plate., Publisher identified from address., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Three images on one plate, arranged vertically., Caption in upper right corner of top image: This piece of the train found to do greater execution the more its wore ..., Caption in upper right corner of center image: This piece drives all before it & acts equally from either end ..., Caption in upper right corner of bottom image: This piece kill'd two persons in proving ..., One line of text at bottom of plate: These cannon [sic] are all mounted on golden wheels., Plate numbered "5" in upper right corner., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: House of Commons: Ways and Means, 1756 -- Personifications: Liberty as a gun-carriage -- Property as gun-carriage -- Heterodox clergyman as a gun-carriage -- Guns -- Map of England -- Coins as wheels -- Gun-carriage -- Ammunition: sacks of 'Luxury', 'Venality', 'Corruption' -- Trunks of 'Pride', 'Avarice' -- Books of 'Priestcra[ft]', 'Heresy' -- Bills: Money Bill, 1756 -- Taxes: 1756 -- Spears: Britannia's broken spear -- Marriage bill, 1756 -- Buildings: churches --Allusion to the Duke of Newcastle -- Allusion to Lord Hardwicke., and Mounted to 18 x 22 cm.
Publisher:
To be had at the Acorn, facing Hungerford Market in the Strand
Subject (Name):
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Cannons, Maps, Money, Taxes, and Bibles
Title from caption etched above image., Plate numbered '18' in upper right corner., Six lines of verse below image: O prithee strive thy grov'ling mind to raise ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., and Mounted to 17 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliamt. Sep. 30, 1756, by Darly & Edwards at [the] Acorn in [the] Strand
Title from item., Publisher identified from address., Plate numbered '3' in upper right corner., Four lines of verse in two columns engraved below image: And shall the substitutes of power our genius thus bedeck ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Dress: French dress, ca. 1756., and Mounted to 21 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
To be had at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Titles etched above images., Plate numbered '51' in upper right corner., Two images on one plate, each with a title above the image., Six lines of verse under design: No more thy gracious mind perplex / The vulture now no more shall vex ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., and Mounted to 13 x 17 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Novr. 24, 1756, by Darly and Edwards at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1720-1764, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
The Duke of Cumberland shown full length, standing in full glory astride the world with his left foot on Britain and "Medterianian" and Africa identified below. He wears a laurel wreath around his head and carries a bâton; he is very fat. To the left of the "Medterianian" are three fleurs-de-lis referencing the peril of Gibraltar and the predominance of France in the area
Description:
Title etched in image., Plate numbered '55' in upper right corner., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., and Mounted to 23 x 22 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and France.
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Title from caption etched below image., Plate numbered '17' in upper right corner of design., Twelve lines of text below image: Piping hot boil'd in brimstone, dear sister, I'm come ..., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Ghosts -- Henry Pelham as Harry IX., and Mounted to 18 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Sepr. 25, 1756, by Darly & Edwards facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658