TITLE: The city carriers CALL NUMBER: PC 1 - 4296 (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-45408 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Print shows Samuel Turner, Lord Mayor of London, at the head of a procession, alongside Liberty, to present the petition of the Livery of London to the king. Truth rides sidesaddle on a donkey followed by William Beckford, Barlow Trecothick, and Sir R. Ladbroke; an effigy of Thomas Harley brings up the rear among the rabble. On the right, Lord Holland, portrayed as a fox, stands in a sentries box and points to a fool's cap on the ground, he whispers to the sentry, "It fits exactly". MEDIUM: 1 print : etching. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [1769] NOTES: Title from item. Illus. from: The London Magazine, 1769, opp. p. 393. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4296 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. 647. SUBJECTS: Politics & government--England--1760-1770. Petitions--England--1760-1770. Municipal officials--England--London--1760-1770. Corruption--England--London--1760-1770. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. FORMAT: Cartoons (Commentary) British 1760-1770.Etchings British 1760-1770. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a45605 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a45605 CONTROL #: 2004672631
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