Calendar
Archive
Categories
Links
- Ad vivum
- Ashmolean Museum
- Blog Graphic Arts Collection, Princeton University Library
- Bodleian Library
- Picart
- The British Museum
- The Conveyor
- The John Johnson Collection
- The Lewis Walpole Library blog
- The William Hone BioText
- The Word on the Street
- UCSB English Broadside Ballad Archive
- William Godwin's Diary
Daily Archives: December 5, 2012
Britannia Excisa
This satire on Robert Walpole’s 1733 Excise Bill was misplaced (maybe by Thomas Dodd, who did some rearranging after Douce’s death) and kept among Douce’s wood-engravings, which I have been cataloguing this week: The print has been cut from a … Continue reading
Posted in Ballads, Broadsides, Collections and Collectors, Networks, Prints, Satirical prints, Tax, Woodcuts
Comments Off on Britannia Excisa