Common Wealth,Colossus,1766,William Pitt,Sedition,New York,London,Giant,Stilts

Title: Common-wealth - the colossus
Date Created/Published: [London : s.n.] ; Sold by T. Ewart in the Strand, [1766]
Summary: Print shows William Pitt walking on stilts; the right stilt, labeled 'Sedition', points to New York, the left, labeled 'Popularity', is firmly planted in London. He uses one crutch, labeled 'Pension', for support, and the other, held upside down as though a mallet, with winged serpents forming a caduceus, points toward St. Stephens Chapel.
Notes:
Title from item.
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4162
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. 630.
Subjects:
Pitt, William,--Earl of Chatham,--1708-1778.
Stilts--1760-1770.
Giants--1760-1770.
Politics & government--England--1760-1770.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1760-1770.
Etchings--British--1760-1770.
Bookmark /2004672616/
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