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Wilkes, and Liberty.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale

Published by: Edward Sumpter
Title
Wilkes, and Liberty.
Description
English: Satire on Lord Bute: Britannia, holding the cap of liberty, is saved from the attack of Lord Bute who brandishes a dagger as he pulls off her robe by Pitt and Temple; Temple holds a sword aloft while Pitt catches her as she swoons. On the right, Wilkes and Churchill drive off Bute's supporters, who are wearing tartan; Wilkes tramples on Tobias Smollett who holds a shield lettered "Briton"; the shields held by Wilkes and Temple are lettered "North Briton". Engraved inscriptions, letterpress title and verses in two columns referring to the arrest and trial of Wilkes, and one vertical and one horizontal segment of type ornament. (London, Sumpter: [1763])
Depicted people Representation of: John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
Date 1763
date QS:P571,+1763-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 138 millimetres (etching, cut within the plate mark)
Height: 343 millimetres (printed area)
Width: 203 millimetres (etching, cut within the plate mark)
Width: 203 millimetres (printed area)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4332
Notes

The facial types and the swooning figure of Britannia are close to those of prints designed by Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale.

The verses refer to Charles Pratt, Chief Justice of Common Pleas (later Lord Camden) who found that Wilkes, as an MP, was immune from the charge of seditious libel.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4332
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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