An actual survey of the electorate, or, Face of the country whereon Hanover stands, with a view of Herenhauseen and the seats of manufacture [graphic].
- Published/Created:
- [London]
Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Garden
[1743] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 19.8 x 32.5 cm, on sheet 24 x 38 cm
- Notes:
- Title from item.
Publisher identified from address.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Five lines of text, including key to numbered objects within image, below image: Tho' this is not given as [the] most regular, [the] most varied, or [the] most noble prospect in the world ...
P. Murray Hill; May 1957; Acquisitions no.: 957-5-3-23.
Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis.
With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740. - Abstract:
- "Satire identifying George II with his electorate of Hanover, showing the Hanoverian landscape and his profile head in trompe l'oeil; the king is shown with a moustache in the style typical of a German soldier of the period. The landscape carries numbers referring to a key beneath suggesting that trade in Hanover is in a state of decay: 1. Herrenhausen; 2. Manufacture of Boars Heads (a ruined building); 3. Do. of Hams (a farm); 4. The Town of Hanover; 5. Manufacture of Linnen (a distant village); 6. Do. of Bonporenicole (a fortress; a reference to the lack of provisions for British troops in Germany, see BM Satire 2584); 7. Beggars Cambrick (another village); 8. Hunting House; 9. The (Army) Camp; 10. The River Leyne; 11. The Alder (a lake in the foreground where men are fishing)."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Variant Titles:
- Face of the country whereon Hanover stands, with a view of Herenhauseen and the seats of manufacture
- Associated Names:
- Bickham, George, 1706?-1771 [Publisher]
- Topics:
- George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings -- England -- London -- 1743
Portrait prints
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1743
Watermarks (Paper) -- I V. - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 C2 738
- Orbis Record:
- 8788068
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr30012
- Volume/Enumeration:
- Digital version
- OID:
- 10984315
- PID:
- digcoll:553062