Accession number
PML 145850.16
Published
[London] : Printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe in Paternoster-Row, 1741.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
A satirical broadside on a motion to address the Crown for the dismissal of Sir Robert Walpole, which was defeated in the House of Commons in February 1741.
With 3 columns of letterpress verse below print.
Mounted as item 16 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy torn at lower corners with extensive loss to text and image.
With 3 columns of letterpress verse below print.
Mounted as item 16 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy torn at lower corners with extensive loss to text and image.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 293 x 175 mm; plate mark: 309 x 190 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a street scene, with Whitehall, including the Banqueting House, and the Treasury, in the background; in the middle ground the Duke of Argyll, drives a coach drawn by six horses over four men, while inside the coach Lord Carteret sits screaming, "Let me get out"; in the foreground a figure representing William Pulteney, leading a group of men, pushes a wheelbarrow filled with papers as he exclaims "Z--nds they're over".
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