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Idol-Worship or The Way to Preferment, a portrait of Robert Walpole.
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1700-1799
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Width: 26.3 cm
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Inscription: inscription : printed : upper centre margin & recto : : IDOL-WORSHIP / or / The Way to Preferment. //
Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre margin & recto : : And Henry the KING made unto himself a great IDOL, the likeness of which was not in Heaven above, nor / in the Earth beneath; and he reared up his Head unto ye Clouds, [ampersand] extended his Arm over all ye Land; His Legs also / were as ye Posts of a Gate, or as an Arch stretched forth over ye Doors of all ye Publick Offices in ye Land, [ampersand] whosoever went out, / or whosoever came in, passed beneath, [ampersand] with Idolatrous Reverence lift up their Eyes, [ampersand] kissed ye Cheeks of ye Postern. / Chronicle of the Kings, page 51. //
Inscription: inscription : manuscript in pen : lower right margin & recto : : See a public Paper called Common-Sense [colon] or, the Englishman's Journal [colon] / published Weekly under that Title for the first year, printed in a Vol. in the / year 1738. p. of that Vol. 48, [ampersand]c. - There was a Print engraved from the / Vision of the Golden-Pump, which I put into the said Vol. //
Inscription: inscription : manuscript in pen : lower centre & verso : : Coll. G. E'els [colon] Derham S. P. P. nec non Coll. D. Joh [colon] Bapt. Oxon. ompor Res [colon] Dign. //
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