TITLE: The statue, or the adoration of the wise-men of the west CALL NUMBER: PC 1 - 4141 (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-45400 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Print shows Dr. W. Scott on a pedestal, he is wearing clerical robes, a crown fashioned from tobacco leaves, and holding a branch from an apple tree in his right hand and a picture of the tax stamp; around the pedestal are standing Mr. Wedderburn, the Earl of Halifax, Lord Sandwich (Jemmy Twitcher), George Grenville, the Duke of Bedford, and Sir Fletcher Norton. The wife of a weaver wearing ragged dress, with her two children, kneels at the base of the pedestal. MEDIUM: 1 print : etching and engraving. CREATED/PUBLISHED: London : [s.n.] ; Sold by Mr. Smith No. 45 Long Acre, and Mr Clagget Junr. in Sugar Loaf Court, Fanchruch Buildlings, 1766 April 21st NOTES: Title from item. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4141 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. 625. SUBJECTS: Sculpture--1760-1770. Economic policy--England--1760-1770. Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765) United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes. FORMAT: Cartoons (Commentary) British 1760-1770.Intaglio prints British 1760-1770. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a45597 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a45597 CONTROL #: 2004672611
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