The grand triumvirate, or, Champions of liberty [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London?]
[publisher not identified]
[April 1763]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 23 x 31.8 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4035

Notes:

Title engraved in banner above image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Old Print Shop: October 1959; Acquisitions no.: 959-10-1-80.
Numbered in ms. on verso: N14290.

Abstract:

Satire with three-quarters length portraits of Wilkes (left), Bute (middle), and Hogarth (right) in oval cartouches; below each portrait is an acrostic of the name of the sitter above. Wilkes holds a book marked "North Briton, No. 17" which was published 25 September 1762. In front of the portrait at the base of the oval is a book marked "North Briton No. 45". Wilkes's frame is decorated with a cap, staff, and wreath of "Liberty"; on a ribbon is "Magna Carta". Bute looks out at the viewer, a book inscribed "Cyder and Perry &c. &c" at the base of the oval frame; a scourge and manacles are place on either side of the frame, alluding to the prosecution undertaken by the ministry of Lord Bute. Hogarth is shown in profile sketching Wilkes and looking across the portrait of Bute. The book at the base of the frame is "Line of Beauty". The heads of Folly and Envy decorate the frame; above is Hogarth's dog Trump.

Variant Titles:

Champions of liberty

Topics:

Artists
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Dogs
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
National emblems -- Scottish
Newspapers
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Politicians -- England
Steevens, George, 1736-1800
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797

Language:

English

Genre:

Acrostics
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1763
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1763

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

Hogarth 763.04.00.04 Impression 2 Box 111

Orbis Record:

11917057

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr02326

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10713163

PID:

digcoll:940838