Details

Subject(s)

• Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Caricature [Browse]
• Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• John Bull (Symbolic character)—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Political cartoons—Great Britain—18th century [Browse]
• Great Britain—Kings and rulers—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]

Notes

• Medium: Etchings
• Inscribed in plate, upper left: "Poor John Bull's house plundered at noon day".
• Provenance: Stamped on verso, "Princeton University // Library // Presented by // Dickson Q. Brown '95".
• Unsigned.

Source acquisition

Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.

References

British Museum. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, [1978]. No. 6227

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