A voyage to hell, or, A pickle for the devil [engraving]
1756
IN L2005F180 1698/1811 ff
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Title
A voyage to hell, or, A pickle for the devil [engraving]
Published
London Sold at the corner of the West Passage of the Royal Exchange in Castle Alley, [1756]
Description
1 engraving : ill. ; 21 x 29 cm. on a leaf 46 x 29 cm.
Call Number
IN L2005F180 1698/1811 ff
Note
Possibly drawn by the same artist as The devil turned drover (on leaf 121r); it was published from the same address.
Shows the Duke of Newcastle as a fishwife (or salmon dealer) rowing a tub down the River Styx along with Byng with a sheep's head in a row boat; both row toward the gates of Hell, guarded by the Devil. It was Newcastle who had approved the appointment of Byng as commander of a squadron in the Mediterranean.
Copperplate accompanied by 16 lines of verse beginning: Good people give ear & the truth I'll unfold/ Of a voyage that is lately begun/ Between an old woman of Lincolns Inn Fields/ And the sheepsheaded A____l Bung.
On leaf 77r of The Tragedy of Admiral Byng, 1756-56.
Shows the Duke of Newcastle as a fishwife (or salmon dealer) rowing a tub down the River Styx along with Byng with a sheep's head in a row boat; both row toward the gates of Hell, guarded by the Devil. It was Newcastle who had approved the appointment of Byng as commander of a squadron in the Mediterranean.
Copperplate accompanied by 16 lines of verse beginning: Good people give ear & the truth I'll unfold/ Of a voyage that is lately begun/ Between an old woman of Lincolns Inn Fields/ And the sheepsheaded A____l Bung.
On leaf 77r of The Tragedy of Admiral Byng, 1756-56.
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In pencil at lower right: 3501 BMC
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