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 item., Design for this print attributed to Yarbury. See British Museum online catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Bush(?), fi. 1763 -- Morton(?), fl. 1763 -- Laurence, fl. 1763 -- John Saunders, 6th Bt. Sebright , 1725-1794 -- Allusion to Richard Nash, 1674-1761 -- Abel Moysey, 1743-1831 -- Cooper, fl. 1763 -- Lewis Clutterbuck, d. 1776 -- Chapman, d. 1781(?) -- Ford, fl. 1763 -- Walter Wiltshire, fl. 1763 -- Spurrier, fl. 1763 -- Attwood, fl. 1763 -- Axford, fl. 1763 -- Crook, fl. 1763 -- Dallamore, fl. 1763 -- Corporation of Bath -- Literature: allusion to Life of Richard Nash of Bath, Esquire, by Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-1774 -- Literature: quotation from Henry IV, pt. 1, ii.4.153, by William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 -- Addresses: Bath citizens' address, May 28, 1763 -- Addresses: quotation from Allen's address, The gentleman's magazine, v. 33, p. 376-7, August 1763 -- Bath: Prior Park -- Inns: allusion to Greyhound Inn, Bath -- Magna Charta., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Allen, Ralph, 1694-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Leake, James, -1764, Ligonier, John, 1680-1770, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Warburton, William, 1698-1779
Subject (Topic):
Clerks, Mayors, Medical equipment & supplies, Municipal officials, Occupations, Physicians, and Town criers
"Two-part satire on the resignation of Lord Bute, April 1763. On the left is a scene of execution, headed "Excise", with Bute, identified by his plaid waistcoat, hanging from an apple tree (referring to the Cider Bill), a devil sitting on the branch above him wears a large boot (a pun on Bute) on one leg, the other ending in a claw; two men below exult. In the centre a man (evidently another representation of Bute as he wears a large boot on one leg and on the other leg wears a garter lettered "Honi ..." as in the scene on the right) lies across a fire while another pumps a pair of bellows to fan the flames; three farmers standing behind the fire and another to the right rejoice at Bute's downfall. On the right, another devil reciting the proverb, "Harm watch, Harm catch", one leg ending in a hammer, sits on top of a gallows from which hangs a fox (Henry Fox) wighted down by money bags tied around his neck. On the right is a scene set in a grand interior, headed "Resignation, in which Princess Augusta sprawls weeping in a chair her breasts partly exposed while a devil delves into Bute's breeches as he drags him through a door through which flames and smoke can be seen, the Duke of Cumberland brandishes a sword in his right hand and pushes Bute with his left; he is encouraged by a nephew, Edward, Duke of York, at lower right, a lusty goat, one of whose hands is a claw, looks on with pleasure."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Excise and Resignation
Description:
Title etched below image, between the verses., Two images on one plate, each with caption title above., Eight lines of verse under each image: With greater joy, his L- see, like Judas hanging on a tree ..., Temporary local subject terms: Laws & statutes: Cyder Act, 1763 -- Bute's resignation, April 8, 1763., Watermark., and Subjects identified below plate mark in an unknown hand.
Publisher:
J. Williams
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1739-1767, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774