The hungry mob of scriblers and etchers [graphic]

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Title: The hungry mob of scriblers and etchers [graphic]
Creator: Mackenzie, Alexander, active 1762, printmaker
Contributor: Howard, H.
Published / Created: [1762]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Verse below image attributed in the British Museum catalogue to Henry Howard.
Sixteen lines of verse, preceded by a quotation from Bible, below title: Let each scribler that will ply his needle or quill in despite of the beadle or gallow's [sic] ...
Temporary local subject terms: Bribery -- Pensions -- Writers -- Printmakers -- Prints: reference to Sawney Discoverd (Stephens 3825) -- Bible: quotation from Proverbs 25.21.
An excerpt from John Almon's Bibliographical, literary & political anecdotes, describing Lord Bute's employment of writers and printmakers, transcribed by Bowditch on mounting sheet.
Mounted to 31 x 39 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ; Bowditch's note on mounting sheet: Truman Sale 1906.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 29 x 18 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1762
Etchings England London 1762
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Shebbeare, John, 1709-1788
Darly, Matthias
Austin, William, 1721-1820
Subjects: Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 > Caricatures and cartoons
Shebbeare, John, 1709-1788 > Caricatures and cartoons
Darly, Matthias > Caricatures and cartoons
Austin, William, 1721-1820 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1762
England > London > 1762

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