"Satire on the public reaction to Admiral Byng's withdrawal from the defence of Minorca."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Byng triumphant
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 32 x 20 cm, on sheet 34 x 22 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Minorca (Spain)
Subject (Name):
Byng, John, 1704-1757, Wesley, John, 1703-1791, and La Galissonnière, Roland Michel Barrin, marquis de, 1693-1756
Subject (Topic):
History, Gallows, Hangings (Executions), and Memorial arches
"Satire on Admiral Byng; Byng, in fetters, is visited by the ghost of his father, the naval hero George Byng, Viscount Torrington, who harangues him in verse; on a table are books lettered "Spanish Armada" and "Matthews and Lestock"; on the wall behind the figures are two pictures, one in which Byng addresses the Duke of Newcastle, "Pray your Grace let me be sent", and the other in which a figure of Justice points to a mob carrying an effigy of Byng, labelled "I Could not Fight", towards a gallows at the foot of which lies a sheet of paper lettered, "Gazetta B[yng']s Letter Lyes and Nonsence"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, above verses., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Two columns of verse below title: Oh, thou whose timid cow'ring heart, by low born fear's betray'd ..., Temporary local subject terms: Personfications: figure of Justice., Watermark: Fleur-de-lis., and Mounted to 35 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Aug. 14, 1756, by J. Smith at Hogarth's Head, Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Byng, John, 1704-1757 and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Three playing card size designs on one plate, arranged vertically
Description:
Titles from items., Caption under top design: --well done quoth Whackum., Caption under center design: Mores homines., Two lines of verse below bottom design: And shall the substitutes of power our Genius thus bedecks ..., Copies of, nos. 3398, 3493, and 3543 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Money: bag of money -- Pictures amplifying subject: hawk attacking cock -- Newcastle Administration -- Axes -- Signboards: inn sign -- Blazing comet -- Masks -- Satire on Admiralty -- Royal die and dice box -- Emblems: anchor -- Pictures amplifying subject: EO table -- Clubs: allusion to White's Club -- Animals: sea-lions -- Trades: fishwomen -- Female dress: French dress, ca. 1756 -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Containers: fishwoman's tub for pickled salmon.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Gallows, and Gambling
