- Published / Created:
- [September 1762]
- Call Number:
- 762.09.00.29
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the negotiations for peace with France. A scene in a slaughter house with a tethered bull over which Lord Bute raises a poll axe while a French cook exclaims to a butcher that the calf's head (the Duke of Bedford) that he holds has no brains. Verses below allude to slaughtered sheep hanging on the wall and beside the block as "Butcher'd and Sold ...for Curst Gallic Gold"; they blame British humiliation on the Scots."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Caledonian slaughterhouse, or, The death of John Bull and Death of John Bull
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two columns of verse below image: Alas! poor John Bull how severe is thy lot, to be led to the slaughter by Sawney the Scot ..., and Mounted to 34 x 47 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character) and Treaty of Paris
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Caledonian slaughter-house, or, The death of John Bull [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [September 1762]
- Call Number:
- 762.09.00.14+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Jack Boot exalted [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1762]
- Call Number:
- 762.09.00.12 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Trophys exchanged and Trophies exchanged
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Twelve lines of verse in three columns below image: O Albion couldn't experience show, or wont your annals tell ..., Temporary local subject terms: The Cocoa Tree Coffee House -- Bedford Head Tavern -- Seven Years War: reference to Havana -- Bible: reference to the Song of Solomon, 2:5 -- Reference to Daniel 5:27 -- Literature: quotation from Congreve -- Quotation from Shakespeare -- Songs: reference to John Anderson my Jo -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with unidentified initials below.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
- Subject (Topic):
- Coffeehouses and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The trophys exchang'd [graphic].