The colossus [graphic].
- Published/Created:
- [London]
[publisher not identified]
[1767] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 19 x 12.5 cm, on sheet 22 x 14 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image.
Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved.
Four lines of verse below image: Why man he doth bestride this narrow world like a colossus; and we petty ministers ...
Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : J. Almon, v. 1 (1767).
Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: St. James's Palace -- Scourges -- Colossi: Colossus of Rhodes -- Emblems: goat as lust -- Snake as fraud -- Praying -- Gout -- Literature: paraphrased quotation from Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, i.2.
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-3-84.
Mounted to 37 x 26 cm. - Topics:
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Cumberland, William Augustus, Duke of, 1721-1765
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Newcastle, Thom
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Scott, James, 1733-1814
Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779 - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings -- England -- London -- 1767
Periodical illustrations
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1767 - 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:
- 767.09.00.01 Impression 1
- Orbis Record:
- 8423901
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr02614
- Volume/Enumeration:
- Digital version
- OID:
- 10713320
- PID:
- digcoll:941004
