- Published / Created:
- [1763]
- Call Number:
- 763.04.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Argumentum ad hominem
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Date of publication inferred from date of Lord Bute's resignation., Based on no. 4032 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4?, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Games: bob-cherry -- Oeconomy -- Offices: Clerk of the Pells., and Watermark: 1748.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Holland, Stephen Fox, Baron, 1745-1774, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Fox, Henry Edward, 1755-1811, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Grenville, George, 1712-1770
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bob Cherry, or, Argumentum ad hominem [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [1763]
- Call Number:
- 763.04.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption., A letter in form of rebus., State without imprint, from: The Scots scourge ... London : Printed for J. Pridden, [1763]. Cf. British Museum Cat., no. 4012., The following words within title are represented by a rebus: Beelzebub by a demon, Lord Bute by his portrait., Temporary local subject terms: Devil -- Excise: cider tax., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Excise a comical hieroglyphical epistle from [Beelzebub] to [Lord Bute]. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1761]
- Call Number:
- 761.06.00.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two columns of verse below image: The genius of the S[cotc]h is mutiny, they scarcely want a guide to move their madnes [sic] ... (Dryden)., Temporary local subject terms: Scottish influence -- Keys of the back stairs -- Allusion to Scotch collops -- Swords: broadsword -- Scottish costume: Highland -- Allusion to the Jacobite Rebellion, 1745 -- Allusion to William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., 1 print on laid paper : etching ; sheet 19 x 31 cm., mounted to 24 x 34 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Scotch collops an antidote for an English stomach. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1761]
- Call Number:
- 761.00.00.09
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the Scots and on the supposed relationship between Lord Bute and Princess Augusta, showing on the left a plaid curtain behind which the couple are seen dancing when the print is held to the light; on the right a Scottish bag-piper plays "Scotch Vagary for the German Flute or Bagpipe" while two gentleman note that he is "sure of preferment"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The mounting sheet contains figures of the Princess of Wales and Lord Bute that can be seen behind the curtain when the print is viewed against a source of light., Temporary local subject terms: Preferment -- Allusion to David Rizzio, d. 1566., and Watermark: unidentified watermark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The curtain [graphic]