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The election humbly inscrib'd, to the Saturday-Nights Club, in Lodge Alley
Title
The election humbly inscrib'd, to the Saturday-Nights Club, in Lodge Alley.
Published
[Philadelphia: s.n., 1765]
Physical Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (etching) ; plate mark 40.2 x 32.4 cm., on sheet 51 x 36 cm.
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Figure of Justice -- Figure of two-faced Treachery -- Literature: quotation from Alexander Pope, 1688-1744 -- Britannia -- America: State House in Philadelphia? -- America: allusion to Germantown -- Electors: Pennsylvania, 1764 -- Elections: Pennsylvania, 1764 -- Pennsylvania constables -- Clergy -- Clubs: allusion to Saturday-Night's Club, Lodge Alley -- Cap and staff of liberty.
Notes
Engraved broadside illustrated at top of plate with an etching.
In verse.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance
Truman Sale 1906.
Variant and related titles
Election humbly inscribed to the Saturday-Nights Club in Lodge Alley
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 01, 2009
References
Evans, C. American bibliography, 9963
Genre/Form
Broadsides - Pennsylvania - 1765.
Satires (Visual works) - Pennsylvania - 1765.
Etchings - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - 1765.
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