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War of posts / T. Colley, fect., British Cartoon Print

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War of posts / T. Colley, fect., British Cartoon Print

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Print shows the new ministers, Pitt, Keppel, Conway, Burke, Fox, and Richmond riding on wooden posts and cannon drive, with the aid of a devil, the old ministers, Nick, Sandwich, Amherst, North, and Mansfield into the jaws of Hell. A temple labeled "Constitution" stands at center "Founded on a Rock." In the background, on the right, is a triangular gallows from which hang three men, "an English sec..., an Irish sec...," and "a Scotch sec..."; on the left, a man in a pillary is receiving "Thirteen stripes."

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5984
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 814.

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01/01/1782
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Colley, Thomas, active 1780-1783, artist
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