A political and satirical history of the years 1756 and 1757 : in a series of seventy-five humorous and entertaining prints, containing all the most remarkable transactions, characters and caricaturas of those two memorable years, to which is annexed, an explanatory account or key to every print, which renders the whole full and significant
A collection of seventy-five satirical engravings on British politics of 1756-57, issued by printseller and engraver Matthias Darly in London in 1758 with a key explaining each plate, sold to a public following the Seven Years' War and the Byng affair. The etchings are small, linear, and crowded with speech scrolls, showing politicians, sailors, and allegorical figures in stage-like settings with monuments, ships, and coastlines, offering ready-made speech banners, caption cartouches, and stock caricature poses.
