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[The Cabal. See Gazetter.][The Picturesque Appearance of a very, very Grave Statesman.]
[Anon., c.1745.]
Rare engraving, sheet 170 x 280mm (6¾ x 11"). Trimmed to image, losing text top and bottom; tear upper left. Remains of scrap sheet verso at corners.
Table with a 'Grave Statesman' surrounded by women, whose cuckolded husbands hide glumly under the table. One is writing a 'Speech for 15 New Regiments'. While unconfirmed, it has been claimed that the central figure is John Montagu, fourth earl of Sandwich (1718-92), and that the print relates to a brief episode in 1745 when Sandwich went on campaign as an officer of the regiment Bedford raised for service against Charles Edward Stuart. The text 'see Gazetteer' refers the reader to an essay Tobias Smollett wrote in the Daily Gazetteer; Smollett subsequently responded to this print in another essay.
BM Satires 2672.
[Ref: 41549] £190.00
Rare engraving, sheet 170 x 280mm (6¾ x 11"). Trimmed to image, losing text top and bottom; tear upper left. Remains of scrap sheet verso at corners.
Table with a 'Grave Statesman' surrounded by women, whose cuckolded husbands hide glumly under the table. One is writing a 'Speech for 15 New Regiments'. While unconfirmed, it has been claimed that the central figure is John Montagu, fourth earl of Sandwich (1718-92), and that the print relates to a brief episode in 1745 when Sandwich went on campaign as an officer of the regiment Bedford raised for service against Charles Edward Stuart. The text 'see Gazetteer' refers the reader to an essay Tobias Smollett wrote in the Daily Gazetteer; Smollett subsequently responded to this print in another essay.
BM Satires 2672.
[Ref: 41549] £190.00