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An Englishman's delight or news of all sorts   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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An Englishman's delight or news of all sorts
Description
English: A newsboy blowing his horn as he runs from left to right. His sheaf of papers is supported by a band over his left shoulder inscribed "Noon Gazett[e]"; the topmost paper has a list of the papers he sells: 'Morning Herald' [1st issue, 1 Nov. 1780], 'Morning Chronicle', 'Morning Post', 'Gazeteer', 'St. James Evening' [Post], 'Lloyds Evening' [Post], 'Public Ledger', 'Public Advertiser', 'Sunday Chronicle'. He holds a purse or wallet in his right hand. A street is indicated by a freely sketched house. Beneath the design is engraved:



"All Englishmen delight in News
In London there 's enough to chuse
Of morning papers near a Ream
Fill'd with every kind of theme
At Noon there 's such a duced Clatter
Strangers must wonder what's the matter
And E'en that day the Lord hath blest
Is now no more a day of rest
Forth from the Press the Papers fly
Each greedy reader to supply
Of battles fought, and numbers slain,
Of Towns besieg'd and prisoners ta'en,
Engagements both by Sea and Land
Eccho from Aldgate to the Strand
Hail! happy land, sure none's so blest
With News to comfort every breast." 30 December 1780


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Date 1780
date QS:P571,+1780-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 225 millimetres
Width: 181 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,7.35
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) All the newspapers whose titles are here given (in whole or in part) were current in 1780 except the 'Sunday Chronicle', which did not appear till 1831. The first Sunday newspaper was 'F. Johnson's British Gazette and Sunday Monitor', appearing in 1779, of which Crabbe wrote:

"Then, lo! the sainted Monitor is born, Whose pious face some sacred texts adorn. 'The Newspaper', 1785."

Bourne, 'English Newspapers' and 'Times Hand List of Newspapers'.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-7-35
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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