Publish'd according to act of Parliamt. [August 1762]
Call Number:
762.09.09.01+ Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A letterpress broadside with verses of a song in two columns satirizing the Bute administration's overtures for peace with France, suggesting that making peace and handing English conquests to France are motivated by the Duke of Bedford's personal interest to escape paying the Land Tax to support the war. With an etching at top showing Lord Bute on the left offering a scroll to two Frenchmen who are holding the British lion on a chain. One holds a flag with a large jack-boot, the emblem of Lord Bute. In the lower left a tomb decorated with a skull and crossbones and the words "British glory obit 1762".
Alternative Title:
Device to lower the land tax
Description:
Caption title in letterpress., Publication date from Stephens., "Price sixpence.", Etching at top of sheet: plate mark 18.6 x 19.2 cm. Imprint etched in lower left: Publish'd according to act of Parliamt., Six stanzas of song in two columns: Here you may see the happy congress, all now is done with such a bon grace ..., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Printed for the author and sold by all the printsellers in London and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Skull & crossbones, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Title from text above image., Publication date inferred from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Three columns of explanatory description below image: A. Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, favourite of Edward III ..., Plate numbered '29' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Bedchamber -- Pictures amplifying subject: portraits of the Princess of Wales and Lord Bute -- Monitor -- North Briton -- Furniture: couch -- Furnishings: bed curtains -- Quotation from Thomson -- Literature: allusion to Richard III by Shakespeare -- Peter des Roches, d. 1238, Bishop of Winchester., and Mounted to 27 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330, Burgh, Hubert de, d. 1243, Montfort, Simon de, Earl of Leicester, 1208?-1265, and Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Beds, Ghosts, Newspapers, and Draperies
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left., "Price 6 pence"., Seven lines of verse above image, in center of title line: Is there a chorus on human kind so fell, so pestilent, at once, to Prince and people ... Thomson., Three columns of explanatory description below image: A. Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, favourite & suppos'd minion of the Queen Mother, in the reign of Edward III ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedchamber -- Ghosts -- Pictures amplifying subject: portraits of the Princess of Wales and Lord Bute -- Newspapers: Monitor -- Newspapers: North Briton -- Furniture: couch -- Furnishings: bed curtains -- Mottoes: Felix quem faciunt aliena cautum -- Literature: quotation from Thomson -- Literature: allusion to Richard III by Shakespeare -- Peter des Roches, d. 1238, Bishop of Winchester.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330, Burgh, Hubert de, d. 1243, Montfort, Simon de, Earl of Leicester, 1208?-1265, and Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Five columns of verse below title: Behold my friends with eager eyes a mukle boot of wondrous size! ..., and Temporary local subject terms: British lion -- Jack-boots -- Orders: star of the Garter.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Title from item., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate numbered '5' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison : consisting of the most humorous satirical political prints, for the year 1762. ... [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller in Fleet Street, and Mr. Harvest, printseller in Heming's-Row St. Martin's Lane, [1763]., and Mounted to 31 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
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 Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771
Title from item., Four columns of verse below image: One night, as on my bed I laid, this simple dream came in my head ..., Temporary local subject terms: British Lion., and Mounted to 32 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, 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 Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771
Letterpress broadside poem illustrated with etching at top of sheet., Etching also entitled: The K---s ass, i.e., The Kings ass. Plate mark 8.7 x 6.5 cm., Publication date from Stephens., Following imprint: Price six-pence., One line of text below imprint: N.B. This ass has entered Stationer's Hall, and whoever copies him will be prosecuted., Nine stanzas of song below title: Attend my good people, I'll sing you a song, and if not very good -- why it shall not be long ..., Temporary local subject terms: Orders: Order of the Garter (ribbon and star) -- Influence: Lord Bute's influence on George III., Printed on laid paper ; mounted to 34 x 44 cm., and Watermark: royal cipher with initials GR below.
Needs must when the de'el drive and Needs must when the devil drive
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., First published by J. Williams in Sept. 1762. Cf. No. 3898 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Dismemberment of the British Empire., and Mounted to 34 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by W. Hannell, printseller under the Royal Exchange
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character) and Carriages & coaches
Wonderfull phoenomenon, from the observatory at Scone and Wonderful phoenomenon
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Publication place and publisher identified from the publisher's address., Six lines of verse in theree columns below image: I strike at vice, be't where it will, and what if great foo-s [i.e., fools] take it ill? ..., Temporary local subject terms: Censorship: reference to Scandalatum Magnatum -- Personfications: fame -- Scotia (Symbolic character)., and Watermark: royal cipher (GR).
Publisher:
[M. Darly], to be had in Cranforn Ally
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
A group of four persons-- the Princess of Wales, Earl of Bute, the Queen, and the King-- stand up and dance before five courtiers who sit, three along the wall on the left, two along the wall on the right. A bagpiper on the left plays, with the words in a bubble: "up stairs, down stairs in my Ladys Bed Chamber". The five courtiers, including a Scotchman, each have speech bubbles commenting on the scene with references to the Irish, the Scotch jig, Italian masters
Alternative Title:
Windsor minuet 1762
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker's name ficticious, an allusion to William Hogarth., Cf. No. 3981 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Mounted to 31 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.