"A broadside on the British failure to retaliate against French forces in America, with the ghost of Oliver Cromwell addressing the Duke of Cumberland, Lord Anson and Henry Fox (subsequently Lord Holland) and drawing attention to the achievements of Admiral Blake in the previous century; with an etching showing the profile of a bust of Cromwell looking to the right; with letterpress title and text in four columns."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Letterpress title above portrait., Publication date from the British Museum catalogue., The bust portrait of Cromwell in profile with plate mark 14.6 x 14.5 cm., and Watermark in the upper part of sheet, countermark in the lower.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658,, Blake, Robert, 1599-1657., William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765., Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762., and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774.
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record, based on Lord Bute's appointment., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Illustration to a ballad of the same title, printed below the plate., One line of quotation below title: Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator?, Twelve stanzas in two columns separated with vertical ornamental border: I. We're told how Cecilia did soothingly sing and sweetly inspire, th'angelical quire! ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Choruses -- Buildings: outhouse -- Pleasure gardens: reference to Ranelagh -- Musical instruments -- Music: song sheets -- Ballads: The Dilletante! -- "The new Highland laddie" -- Literature: quotation from Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (55/60-127)., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Publisher:
Published by M. Darly, at Number 39, in the Strand
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765