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Title:The [Cha]mpion, or Even[ing] adver[tiser] [graphic] / by Capt. Hercules Vinegar, of Pall-Mall.
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Publication:[London] : [publisher not identified], [not before 30 September 1744]
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Physical Description:1 print : engraving ; plate mark 29.3 x 36.3 cm, on sheet 36.0 x 45.1 cm
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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Call Number: Folio 724 C2 738
- Status:No information available
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Notes:With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
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Provenance:P. Murray Hill; May 1957; Acquisitions no.: 957-5-3-30.
Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis.
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Digital version
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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Medium:laid paper.
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Notes:Title engraved within image.
Title of the medley: His political creed.
Date from British Museum catalogue.
Original imprint mostly burnished, but legible: "Sold at [the] Blackmoors Head, Strand, Sept. 30 1744."
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Summary:A medley of representations of newspapers, playing cards, and letters (To Mr. Geo. Bickham, engraver & drawing mar. ...). The newspaper ornament includes the figure of Cardinal Fleury who grasps a label "Dunkirk". George II is depicted as the King of Diamonds while his favorite Sophia Walmoden, Countess of Yarmouth is shown as the Queen of Diamonds. Sir Robert Walple's face is shown as the Knave of Diamonds. The creed is in the form of a rebus.
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Variant and related titles:Champion, or Evening advertiser
His political creed
- Format:Visual Material
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References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no. 2453
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Subjects:George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760--Caricatures and cartoons.
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745--Caricatures and cartoons.
Fleury, AndreĢ Hercule de, 1653-1743--Caricatures and cartoons.
France--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Foreign relations--France.
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Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1744.
Rebuses.
Engravings--England--London--1744.
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