A Block for the Whigs - or, The new State Whirligig (Poor John Bulls House Plundered at Noon Day)
Date:
1783
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with hand coloring in watercolor
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered above image: "Poor John Bull's House plunder'd at Noon Day"; lettered in image: "Tis Liberty, Tis Liberty | Dear Liberty Alone. | Dam'd rough sai- | ling this, I shall never | be able to keep my seat | till the 27th - July"; lettered below image: "A BLOCK for the WIGS - or, the new State Whirligig"; lettered at bottom right of image: "Pub'd May 5th 1783 by W. Humphrey No 227 Strand."; lettered below image: "A BLOCK for the WIGS ___ or, the new State Whirligig."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection