The house that Jack built 1785 [graphic] / [Greek letter sigma] inv. et excu. 1785.

Published/Created:

[London?]
[publisher not identified]
published according to act April 26, 1785

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 20 x 34 cm

Notes:

Title from words etched in the frame of the doorway in the left of the design.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Beneath the design are etched the subjects and the characters illustrated.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Treasury -- Taxes: Window Tax, 1784 -- American Indians -- Ireland -- Irish harp -- Milk pails -- Literature: "The House that Jack Built" -- Literature: quotation from John Milton's Samson Agonistes.
Suckling; November 1956; Acquisitions no.: 956-11-1-17.

Topics:

Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805
Liverpool, Charles Jenkinson, Earl of, 1727-1808
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Pitt, William, 1759-1806

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1785
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1785

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

785.04.26.02

Orbis Record:

7694855

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05767

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10727990

PID:

digcoll:551332