The ballance, or, The American's triumphant [graphic].

Edition:

[State without plate no.].

Published/Created:

[London?]
Publish'd according to act of Parliament
[1766]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 19.4 x 26 cm, on sheet 21 x 27 cm

Notes:

Title etched above image.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Following imprint: Price sixpence.
Explanation of numbers applied to persons and objects in the print added below image.
Earlier state without plate number. Cf. No. 4143 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Royal Exchange -- See-saws -- Laws & statutes: repeal of the Stamp Act -- Personifications: America as a native man -- Mythology: Minerva -- Mythology: Mercury -- Ships -- Commerce: bales of merchandise -- Reference to the fall of the Rockingham Administration -- Devil -- Gout -- Medical: crutch.
Print Shop; November 1958; Acquisitions no.: 958-11-1-252.
Watermark: Vryheyt.

Variant Titles:

American's triumphant
Balance

Topics:

Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Grenville, George, 1712-1770
Mansfi
Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1766
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1766
Watermarks (Paper) -- Vryheyt

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

766.03.18.10

Orbis Record:

8424469

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr02585

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10713303

PID:

digcoll:940976