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[John Wilkes] The Devils Triumphant or the Messengers in the Suds.
[by Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale.]
[n.d., 1763.]
Etching with engraving. Sheet 230 x 310mm (9 x 12¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
A satire on Wilkes's release from custody in April 1763 and the successful actions for damages by printers of the North Briton newspaper. In the Guildhall (identified by the legs of Mag and Magog upper left), a demon grasps the collar of Nathan Carrington, the King's Messenger who had arrested the printers. Two other demons attack three other Messengers (Money, Watson and Blackmore) who are prostrate. In the centre Wilkes takes the hand of Pratt, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, who had released him from the Tower. To the right a group of printers delight in their good fortune in the substantial sums they have been awarded.
BM Satires 4065.
[Ref: 63590] £360.00
[n.d., 1763.]
Etching with engraving. Sheet 230 x 310mm (9 x 12¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
A satire on Wilkes's release from custody in April 1763 and the successful actions for damages by printers of the North Briton newspaper. In the Guildhall (identified by the legs of Mag and Magog upper left), a demon grasps the collar of Nathan Carrington, the King's Messenger who had arrested the printers. Two other demons attack three other Messengers (Money, Watson and Blackmore) who are prostrate. In the centre Wilkes takes the hand of Pratt, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, who had released him from the Tower. To the right a group of printers delight in their good fortune in the substantial sums they have been awarded.
BM Satires 4065.
[Ref: 63590] £360.00