One headed corporation and Sequel to the Knights of Bath
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., "Price 1s.", Twelve lines of verse in three columns below image: See liberty's champions still loyal and true, Displaying the tricks of poor R-h and his crew ..., Temporary local subject terms: Corporation of Bath -- Aldermen of Bath -- Emblems: postman for the Master of the Cross-Posts -- Figure of Falstaff -- Devil -- Birds: raven -- Addresses: Ralph Allen's address in The gentleman's magazine, v.33, p.376-7 -- Inns: allusion to Greyhound Inn, Bath -- Expressions: 'adequate' -- Newspapers: allusion to The North Briton -- Clergy -- Grotesqueries -- Bible: quotation -- Tents -- John Saunders, 6th Bt. Sebright, 1725-1794 -- Abel Moysey, 1743-1831 -- Lewis Clutterbuck, d.1776 -- Ford, fl. 1763 -- Cooper, fl. 1763 -- Crook, fl. 1763 -- Master of the Cross-Posts of England -- Postmen., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials G R below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Ligonier, John, 1680-1770, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Warburton, William, 1698-1779, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Allen, Ralph, 1694-1764, and Leake, James, -1764
Title from caption etched above image., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Copy of no. 4079-4 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Bedchamber -- Furnishings: bed curtain -- Emblems: Scotch bonnet for Lord Bute -- Wall mirror -- Female dress: stays., and Mounted to 31 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title from caption etched above image., Motto below image: Finis coronat opus., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Reversed copy of: No. 4079-6 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Mouth of Hell -- Monsters -- Devil -- Mottoes: finis coronat opus., and Mounted to 32 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
Title from item., Title etched below image., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Reduced copy of No. 4030 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Wilkes's house -- Personifications: Fame -- Busts: bust of Lord Bute -- Reference to excise -- Reference to William Hogarth's The times, Plate I -- British Lion -- Newspapers: Auditor ; North Briton -- Reference to Magna Charta -- King's Messengers., and On page 296 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 11.3 x 15.4 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Tower of London (London, England)
Title from item., Title etched below image., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Reduced copy of No. 4030 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Wilkes's house -- Personifications: Fame -- Busts: bust of Lord Bute -- Reference to excise -- Reference to William Hogarth's The times, Plate I -- British Lion -- Newspapers: Auditor ; North Briton -- Reference to Magna Charta -- King's Messengers., and Mounted to 31 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Tower of London (London, England)
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark in upper left corner only., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Reduced copy, with abbreviated title, of no. 4055 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Wilkes's house -- Trials: the trial of John Wilkes, 1763 -- Personifications: Fame -- Reference to Chief Justice Pratt -- Reference to Serjeant Glynn -- Allusion to the Brazen Head -- Busts: bust of Lord Bute -- Emblems: Scotch thistle -- Reference to excise -- British Lion., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Egremont, Charles Wyndham, Earl of, 1710-1763, Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of, 1716-1771, Grenville, George, 1712-1770, and Westminster Hall (London, England),
Title from item., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Early state, without plate number, of no. 4027 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Resignations: Lord Bute's resignation, April 8, 1763 -- Executions: hangings -- Gallows -- Effigies: Lord Bute's effigy -- Farmers -- Demons., and Mounted to 30 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
"A broadside satirising Lord Bute, his Cider Excise scheme, and the Peace Treaty of Paris (1762); with an etching showing a podium with King George III seated on a throne, in front of him a group of men (aldermen) delivering a petition; on the right Lord Bute, dressed in tartan; with engraved speech bubbles and inscriptions, and with letterpress title and verses in one column."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sawney's oeconomy and Sawney's economy
Description:
Caption title from song in letterpress printed below the plate., Above title: To the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London; To the glorious Opposition; and to the authors of the North Briton, this piece is humbly inscribed., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top., Eight stanzas of song below title: All the friends of the land, who corruption withstand, the Muse patriotic must prize ..., "(Price six-pence).", Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Where may be had the Tyburn Interview., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and Mounted to 41 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Burd, in the Temple Exchange Passage, Fleet Street, and sold by all printsellers, &c. in London and Westminster
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
"Satire on Lord Bute, his patronage of Scots in London and his alleged relationship with Princess Augusta. Bute, holding a large staff, and the Princess are enthroned declaring mutual love; beside the Princess a standard bearer holds 'The Trophy of Gisbal, Lord of Hebron', a petticoat in front of which hands a boot, the staff of which is surmounted by a Scotch bonnet with the Prince of Wales's feathers. They are encircled by ragged Scots inplaid who are described in the verses beneath naming them in mock-Biblical terms."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Plate numbered '33' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: thistle (Scotland) -- Literature: reference to Gisbal, an hyperborean tale ... -- Bible: reference to Bathsheba., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792