TITLE: War of posts / T. Colley, fect. CALL NUMBER: PC 1 - 5984 (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-46093 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Print shows the new ministers, Pitt, Keppel, Conway, Burke, Fox, and Richmond riding on wooden posts and cannon drive, with the aid of a devil, the old ministers, Nick, Sandwich, Amherst, North, and Mansfield into the jaws of Hell. A temple labeled "Constitution" stands at center "Founded on a Rock." In the background, on the right, is a triangular gallows from which hang three men, "an English sec..., an Irish sec...," and "a Scotch sec..."; on the left, a man in a pillary is receiving "Thirteen stripes." MEDIUM: 1 print : etching and engraving. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [London] : Pubd. by W. Richardson N. 68 High Holborn, 1782 May 1. CREATOR: Colley, Thomas, fl. 1780-1783, artist. NOTES: Title from item. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5984 Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 814. SUBJECTS: Politics & government--England--1780-1790. Government officials--British--England--1780-1790. Political purges--England--1780-1790. Punishment & torture--England--1780-1790. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. FORMAT: Cartoons (Commentary) British 1780-1790.Intaglio prints British 1780-1790. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a46271 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a46271 CONTROL #: 2004673474
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