Sawney below stairs [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London?]
[s.n.]
[1763]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 24 x 37 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Frederick George Stephens, v. 4, no. 4048

Notes:

Title from caption etched above image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Three columns of verse below image: News, news, Britons, news is arriv'd by this packet, just brought by a devil in flame colour'd jacket ...
Temporary local subject terms: Resignations: Lord Bute's resignation, April 1763 -- Excise: Cyder Act -- Mythology: Underworld -- Charon -- Cerberus -- River Styx -- Furies -- Animals: reptiles -- Literature: reference to Sejanus by Ben Jonson, 1572-1637.
Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-3-36.
Bowditch's note on mounting sheet: Truman Sale 1906.
Mounted to 27 x 40 cm., mounted again to 38 x 56 cm.

Topics:

Brühl, Heinrich, Graf von, 1700-1763
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530

Language:

English

Genre:

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

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

763.04.00.24+ Impression 1

Orbis Record:

8460019

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr02341

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10713177

PID:

digcoll:940856