Title from item., Engraved broadside poem illustrated with etching at top of sheet., Eight stanzas of song in two columns below image: Now ghosts are in fashion resolv'd to make one, I'm come sir to tell you that you must have done ..., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
[publisher not identified].
Subject (Name):
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Title from text etched at top of image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., For the appearance of comet, see Gentlemen's magazine, Sept. 1757, p. 392., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials LVG below., and Imprint partially burnished from plate.
Publisher:
D.P. according to act [...]
Subject (Geographic):
Halley's comet., Minorca (Spain), Corsica (France), Flanders., and America.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: See Gawkee & P--t how they sue for a place, see perch'd on a turnstile his unsteady grace ..., Temporary local subject terms: Crowns: royal crown -- Turnstiles., Watermark: countermark L V G., and Mounted to 33 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Newcastle, Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, Duke of, 1720-1794, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779
"Satire on the times in four compartments each showing the figure of Time and a grindstone in relation to current events: the incompetent management of war with France; John Barnard's lottery scheme, in which Henry Legge, Chancellor of the Exchequer, had invested heavily; Henry Fox's "Treachery,Vanity, Folly & Impudence" which Pitt promises to crush; the burden of taxes on all but the friends of the Devil."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Design divided into four compartments, each with its own title and numbered Part 1 to 4., Temporary local subject terms: Grinding stones -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- British Lion -- Personifications: Time -- Frenchmen -- Spaniards., and Mounted to 23 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778