A half-starved sailor with a stick stands beside a loom covered in cobwebs in front of a tower above which appears a throne. Engraving, 1757.
- Date:
- Saturday June 11 1757
- Reference:
- 579995i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
On the right are figures representing corruption: two gossiping counsellers with heads of geese, two bishops playing backgammon and drinking spirits, two noblemen robbing a countryman asleep in a chair and two senators counting their bribes. They are contrasted with figures symbolising poverty and want on the left: a begging sailor, two countrymen with empty pockets and a poor family with an empty cupboard
Publication/Creation
[London] (the Bee Hive near St Martins Lane, Strand) : publish'd according to Act of Parliament by T Ewart, Saturday June 11 1757.
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; platemark 25.1 x 36.5 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Without. - From the London Evening Post of Saturday June 11 1757
Below the print within the platemark is a numbered index to the print above which is the following explanation for the title: 'The word without is proper to be regarded. A paper entitled meditations for every hour in ye day is now very puiblick. The treue state of a nation in Europe 1757.'
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, Vol. III, London 1978, no. 3605
Reference
Wellcome Collection 579995i
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Location Status Access Closed stores