TITLE: The new country dance, as danced at C***, July the 30th 1766 CALL NUMBER: PC 1 - 4147 (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-45401 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Print shows a number of prominent figures in a line dancing, above the dancers is John Wilkes riding behind a witch on a broom, he is defecating on Lord Bute; other dancers include the Prince of Wales, William Pitt (the Earl of Chatham), a Native American woman representing America, the devil dancing with Henry Fox (Lord Holland), Charles Townsend, the Earl of Northington, George III playing the fiddle, the Earl of Rockingham, the Duke of Newcastle, Earl Temple, Frank Hayman, and the Earl of Winchelsea. Includes 32 lines of verse in 8 stanzas which end with the refrain "Doodle doodle doo". MEDIUM: 1 print : etching. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [London : s.n.] ; Sold by J. Pridden in Fleet Street, [1766 July 30] NOTES: Title from item. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4147 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. 627. SUBJECTS: Wilkes, John,--1725-1797. Dance--England--1760-1770. Politics & government--England--1760-1770. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. FORMAT: Cartoons (Commentary) British 1760-1770.Etchings 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 3a45598 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a45598 CONTROL #: 2004672612
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