Seven British politicians as statues on plinths inscribed with the names of ancient characters as well as their own names in abbreviation. Engraving, 1746.

Date:
June 5th 1746
Reference:
32807i
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Left to right: Proteus (Lord Bolingbroke), Cicero (Earl of Orford, i.e. Sir Robert Walpole, who had died the previous year), Clodius (Earl Cholmondeley), Curio (Earl of Bath, i.e. William Pulteney), Aristophanes (holding baton as Commander-in-Chief , probably 1st Earl of Stair), Musaeus (William Pitt the Elder, Earl of Chatham), and Atticus (Henry Pelham). They are displayed on a terrace with treetops and a church tower beyond, giving the impression that the statues are displayed on a high terrace

Publication/Creation

[London?] : [publisher not identified], June 5th 1746.

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 17 x 28.5 cm

Lettering

A collection of modern statues and caracters. ... Modern characters

Notes

With: letterpress headed "Modern characters", explaining the characters, printed below the engraving

References note

British Museum Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. III part ii, London 1877, pp. 624-625, no. 2829

Reference

Wellcome Collection 32807i

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