- Published / Created:
- [17 June 1757]
- Call Number:
- 757.06.17.01.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In the upper right, beneath the French flag, French troops and Indians attack English settlers and burn their homes as signs of general social and political corruption are illustrated in the foreground; each scene is numbered and explained in the key below the image. In the center a tower covered by a cloud, obscuring all but a crown, orb and scepter. Two counselors with goose heads standing gossiping, and two bishops play backgammon and drink spirits (wine?), one sits on a chair made from a bible and the other sits on am overturned model of a church. Two noblemen rob a countryman as he sleeps in his chair. Two senators count their bribes, one hiding the money in his 'pension'. The decline in manufacturing (trade) is symbolized by the idle loom, covered with cobwebs and labeled "To be sold cheape". A thin, starving seaman begs while behind him two common folk stand idly with their hands in their pockets. In the upper left, soldiers in uniform lounge around their military encampment, beside rows of tents and cannons. In the distance, lines of ships stand idle at sea
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Earlier state of the print had 'Gazette' in title; this later state Gazette has been burnished out and replaced with 'Evening Post.', Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark., Following imprint: "Price six pence.", Later state, with change in title, of No. 3605 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 17, 1757, by T. Ewart at the Bee Hive near St. Martins Lane in the Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States and Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Political corruption, Backgammon, Clergy, Games, Pleading (Begging), and Starvation
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Without from the London Evening Post of Saturday, June 11, 1757. [graphic]
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- Published / Created:
- [17 June 1757]
- Call Number:
- 757.06.17.01.1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In the upper right, beneath the French flag, French troops and Indians attack English settlers and burn their homes as signs of general social and political corruption are illustrated in the foreground; each scene is numbered and explained in the key below the image. In the center a tower covered by a cloud, obscuring all but a crown, orb and scepter. Two counselors with goose heads standing gossiping, and two bishops play backgammon and drink spirits (wine?), one sits on a chair made from a bible and the other sits on am overturned model of a church. Two noblemen rob a countryman as he sleeps in his chair. Two senators count their bribes, one hiding the money in his 'pension'. The decline in manufacturing (trade) is symbolized by the idle loom, covered with cobwebs and labeled "To be sold cheape". A thin, starving seaman begs while behind him two common folk stand idly with their hands in their pockets. In the upper left, soldiers in uniform lounge around their military encampment, beside rows of tents and cannons. In the distance, lines of ships stand idle at sea
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Following imprint: "Price six pence.", Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 17., Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials LVG below., Mounted to 32 x 48 cm., and 'Gazette' in title erased from this impression; 'Evening' written in contemporary hand.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 17, 1757, by T. Ewart at the Bee Hive near St. Martins Lane in the Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States and Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Political corruption, Backgammon, Clergy, Games, Pleading (Begging), and Starvation
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Without from the London Gazette of Saturday, June 11, 1757. [graphic]