A satire plainly inferring that those in power will represent things as they pelase; for as all occurarences are deduced form them; both the Prince and the people are equally deceived
Description:
Title etched above image., Plate numbered '40' in upper right corner., Four lines of verse below image: In vain to hard'ned vice your wrongs you'll plead / There is but one who will those wrongs redress ..., 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: Addresses: 'Western Address' to George II, 1756., and Mounted to 16 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Oct. 11th, 1756, by Edwards & Darly at the Acorn, facing Hungerford in the Strand
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, and Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762
Title from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '4' in upper right corner., Four lines of verse below image: A maxim this tho vice first thrives / It seldom lasts th [sic] offenders lives ..., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., Reversed copy of no. 3488 in the Cat. of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: figure of Justice and figure of Liberty -- British Lion.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Title from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '4' in upper left corner of design., Four lines of verse below title: A maxim this tho vice first thrives, it seldom lasts th' offenders lives ..., 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: Personfications: figure of Justice -- Figure of Liberty -- British Lion., and Mounted to 16 x 22 cm.
Publisher:
According to act Sept. 18th, 1756, by Darly & Edwards facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768