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The repeal
Title
The repeal [graphic].
Publication
[London] : [publisher not identified], publish'd according to act of Parliament [1766]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 31 x 43 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Merchant ships -- Skulls of the rebels of 1715 and 1745 -- Bible: burial service -- Stamps upon black flags -- Child's coffin -- Cargoes: bales and boxes -- Bank of Thames -- Boats: lighter -- House of Lords: votes on repeal of Stamp Act, 1766 -- Allusion to America -- Lawyers' briefs -- American trade -- Scotch appeals -- Weepers: Bute wearing a weeper -- Catches: funeral anthem -- Mottoes: semper eadem.
Notes
Title etched at top of image.
Publication date from the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Reduced copy of The repeal by Benjamin Wilson, with several alterations and a key to persons numbered within image added below the design.
"Price only six pence"--Following imprint.
Exhibited: "Global Encounters and the Archives: Britain’s Empire in the Age of Horace Walpole" at The Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT, October 2017-March 2018.
Provenance
Thomas Philip Robinson, Earl DeGrey, 1781-1859.
Summary
"A smaller copy of a satire on the repeal of the Stamp Act and the administration of George Grenville (First Lord of the Treasury, April 1763-July 1765)."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 02, 2009
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, no. 4140
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1766.
Etchings - England - London - 1766.
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