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Stowe MS 310
- Record Id:
- 040-001953112
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001952775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000493.0x00034c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 310
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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COLLECTION of engraved political caricatures illustrating the closing years of George II., and more particularly the last Administration of Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle. Among the characters caricatured are the Duke, Robert Darcy, 4th Baron Holdernesse, Philip Yorke, lst Earl of Hardwicke, George Anson, list Baron Anson, George Lyttelton, Baron Lyttelton, and Henry Fox [1st Baron Holland, 1763]. A short explanation has been written over each print. The plates are identical with those in A Political and Satirical History of the Years 1756 and 1757, in a series of seventy-five Humorous and Entertaining Prints, London, [1759], 16o, where the explanatory key, here written, was also given. Plates 1-4, 8, 9, 16, 17, 33, 49, 75, are here wanting. An earlier edition [1757?], with 74 plates and somewhat different explanations, was published under the title England's Remembrancer. Paper; ff. 47. xviiith cent. Quarto.
George II of England: Political caricatures during the Duke of Newcastle's administration, etc.: 18th cent.
Art. Engravings, etc: Political caricatures: temp. Geo. II.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Stowe Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001952775
036-001952833
037-001953069
040-001953112 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ms 1-1085 : Stowe Manuscripts
Stowe MS 54-310 : CLASS IV.HISTORY.
Stowe MS 268-310 : SECT. VI.-POLITICAL TRACTS, COLLECTIONS, CARICATURES, ETC.
Stowe MS 310 : COLLECTION of engraved political caricatures illustrating the closing years of George II., and more particularly the last… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001952775[0004]/036-001952833[0006]/037-001953069[0043]/040-001953112
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ms 1-1085
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1683-1760