Britain's hope, or political nobodies
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Item data
Title
Britain's hope, or political nobodies
Collection
Caricatures collected by Horace Walpole
Names
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 (Collector)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1784
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection
Shelf locator: MEZYRKZ+ (Walpole)
Shelf locator: MEZYRKZ+
Subjects
Great Britain -- 1700-1799
Men
Clouds
Anchors
Heads (Anatomy)
legs
Genres
Notes
Citation/Reference: No. 76
Physical Description
Engravings
Extent: 1 print : engraving
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b16513354
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 303c1160-c623-012f-48aa-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1784
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "Britain's hope, or political nobodies" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1784. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/303c1160-c623-012f-48aa-58d385a7bc34
APA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. (1784). Britain's hope, or political nobodies Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/303c1160-c623-012f-48aa-58d385a7bc34
Chicago/Turabian Format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "Britain's hope, or political nobodies" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 7, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/303c1160-c623-012f-48aa-58d385a7bc34
Wikipedia citation
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