COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Political Cartoons
Record
Accession number:
10625-2-4
Call number:
DC/L847m/V. 2
Title:
England's Friends.
Place:
[London]
Date:
[1770]
Image technique:
Etching
Image dimensions:
18.4 x 12.2 cm. (plate mark)
Narrative description:
Four medallion portraits surround four clasped hands, clockwise: "Chatham, Temple, Rockingham, Camden." Celebration of "not guilty" verdict in the trial of the printer, John Miller, who reprinted Junius's Letter to the K--- in the London Evening Post (19 December, 1769). Images include: Charles Pratt, Baron Camden; Charles Watson-Wentworth, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham; Richard Grenville, Earl Temple.
References:
BM 4438
Notes:
In: London Museum, v.2 (October, 1770), opp. p. [199]. Below image, "Thrice Happy Patriots whom no Courts debase," attributed to P. Whitehead. For a companion piece, see accession # 10625-2-1.
Subject:
British political scene.
Normalized date:
1770
England's Friends.
