The devil to pay, or, The state indifference [graphic] / by Thomas Appletree of Herefordshire.

Published/Created:

London
Sold by E. Sumpter, three doors from Shoe-Lane, Fleet Street, and by all the print and booksellers in three Kingdoms
[1763]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 26 x 37 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4013

Notes:

Caption title in letterpress below image, above verses.
Two designs, side by side, on one plate.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Below title: Liberty, property, and no excise. An old English motto.
Four columns of song below title: Recitative. Britons, give ear; I sing in doleful lay, The dangers that surround us every day ...
Printseller's advertisement following imprint: Where may be had The British antidote, 2 vol. price 5s, and The fall of Mortimer, or Coach overturn'd. Price 6d.
Temporary local subject terms: Corporations: Corporation of London -- Laws and statutes: cyder act, 1763 -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of Lord Bute -- Excisemen -- Thrones -- Resignations: Lord Bute's resignation, 1763 -- Excisemen -- Buildings: farmhouse -- Containers: barrel -- Trees: pear tree -- Animals: hog -- Chamber pots.
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-3-5.
Mounted to 33 x 47 cm.

Variant Titles:

State of indifference

Associated Names:

Sumpter, Edward, fl. 1763-1787 [Publisher]

Topics:

Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778

Language:

English

Genre:

Annotations (Provenance) -- 18th century
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1763
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1763

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

763.04.13.02.1+

Orbis Record:

8475506

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr02354

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10713187

PID:

digcoll:940858