Upright Billy alias Orator Humbug [graphic].

Published/Created:

London
Publishd Decr. 30th 1788 by H. Humphry, Bond Street
[30 December 1788]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with roulette on blue laid paper ; sheet 37 x 52 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7392

Notes:

Title from item.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Aldermen led by the nose -- Placards -- City Committee placard -- Addresses: Treasury address, 1788 -- Literature: quotation from "Jack the Giant Killer" -- Bags of money -- Taxes: shop tax, 1788 -- Scrutiny: Westminster, 1788 -- Tasselled canes -- Wooden legs --- Slang: pepperd, i.e., venereal disease -- Pitt's ministry, 17888 -- Subscriptions: subscription for Pitt, 1788.
Suckling; 1956.
Watermark.

Variant Titles:

Fee fa fum I smell the cash of the City -- mum

Associated Names:

Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817 [Publisher]

Topics:

Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Pretyman, George, 1750-1827
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Watson, Brook, 1735 -1807
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797

Language:

English

Genre:

Annotations (Provenance)
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1788
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1788
Watermarks (Paper)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

788.12.30.01++ Impression 1

Orbis Record:

9066717

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr06518

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10731053

PID:

digcoll:550325