The deplorable state of America, or, Sc---h government [graphic].
- Published/Created:
- [London
s.n
2 January 1766] - Physical Description:
- 1 print: etching, on laid paper ; sheet 20 x 36 cm.
- Notes:
- Title etched above image.
Publication date from The gazetteer and new daily advertiser. See Stephens.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
In lower right corner: Price 6d.
Temporary local subject terms: Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Personifications: America as a native man -- Liberty -- Loyalty -- Mythology: Minerva -- Mercury -- Pandora's box -- Acts: Stamp Act, 1765 -- Emblems: Caduceus; cap of liberty; thistle as Scotch influence; serpent as treachery; boot as Lord Bute -- Emblems: Boreas as Lord North -- Liberty Tree -- Mercury as commerce -- Ships for sale, with broom at the mast-head -- Purse with money.
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-3-66.
Mounted to 22 x 37 cm. - Variant Titles:
- Sc---h government
Scotch government - Topics:
- Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792 - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings -- England -- London -- 1766
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1766 - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Call Number:
- 766.01.02.01+
- Orbis Record:
- 8431843
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr02577
- Volume/Enumeration:
- Digital version
- OID:
- 10713296
- PID:
- digcoll:940950
