The Highland seer, or, The political vision [graphic] : felix quem faciunt aliena cautum.

Published/Created:

[London]
[publisher not identified]
[June 1762]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 20 x 27 cm, on sheet 24 x 29 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 3867

Notes:

Title from item.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left.
"Price 6 pence".
Seven lines of verse above image, in center of title line: Is there a chorus on human kind so fell, so pestilent, at once, to Prince and people ... Thomson.
Three columns of explanatory description below image: A. Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, favourite & suppos'd minion of the Queen Mother, in the reign of Edward III ...
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedchamber -- Ghosts -- Pictures amplifying subject: portraits of the Princess of Wales and Lord Bute -- Newspapers: Monitor -- Newspapers: North Briton -- Furniture: couch -- Furnishings: bed curtains -- Mottoes: Felix quem faciunt aliena cautum -- Literature: quotation from Thomson -- Literature: allusion to Richard III by Shakespeare -- Peter des Roches, d. 1238, Bishop of Winchester.
Suckling.

Variant Titles:

Political vision

Topics:

Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772
Burgh, Hubert de, d. 1243
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601
Montfort, Simon de, Earl of Leicester, 1208?-1265
Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1762
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1762

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

762.06.00.01 Impression 1

Orbis Record:

8524888

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr02166

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10713063

PID:

digcoll:549351