"Satire on the negotiations leading to the Peace of Paris in response to Hogarth's "The Times Part 1", but also with visual echoes of his much earlier print, "Southwark Fair". In the centre is a large theatrical booth advertising "The Full and Whole Play of Dido and Aeneas" with a show-cloth on which the lovers are depicted taking shelter in a cave; below is platform on which stand Bute and Princess Augusta accompanied by a zany, a drummer (Arthur Murphy) and a trumpeter (Tobias Smollett). Hogarth, portrayed as an ape, stands on a ladder painting a sign-board with a portrait of Pitt (echoing the sign painter in "Beer Street"); at the foot of the ladder another ape, representing the Duke of Bedford, ambassador to Paris, sits on a small table holding a sheet marked "Prelim Peace". Henry Fox looks out of a window at the top of the booth. On the left, Bute stands on stilts playing the bagpipes with a large bag of money hanging from his neck; he is supported by admiring Scotsmen and adored by a group of bishops. Behind him is an inn with the sign of the thistle advertising "Geud Scrubbing for Mon and Horse"; an ass peers throuh a window and an ass's skull hangs above. Beyond, Scotsmen rejoice as buildings burn, while three fireman sleep beside their engine; an owl representing the French ambassador, the Duke de Nivernois, flies overhead carrying on olive branch (in place of Hogarth's dove with the olive branch) . In the foreground a mastiff urinates on an impression of Hogarth's "The Times Part 1"; Charles Churchill gestures towards a bonfire on which is burning "The Wandsworth Epistle" and "The Briton" (Smollett's newspaper) while a sailor, watched by Britannia, brings a wheelbarrow laden with other journals (echoing the barrow containing "The North Briton" in Hogarth's print). Behind this group, William Beckford draws the attention of Pitt, Temple and Newcastle to the happy Scots; Cumberland, bald-headed, shakes his fist. The British lion grasps a dead French cock in his jaws and looks angrily at a Frenchman who hands coins to a Dutchman leaning on a bale marked "Neutrality" (a similar Dutchman in Hogarth's print sits on a bale smoking contentedly). Behind the lion, George Whitefield, arms outspread and a devil blowing with bellows into his ear, preaches from a three-legged stool to an old woman with a prayer-book and a man with the head of an ass. On the left, three further show-cloths hang on the wall of a house, referring to performances at "Punch Political Poppet Show with a Scotch Uproar": "Then", with the figure of Fame crowning a British commander; "Now", with a Scotsman at the prow of a boat foundering on the rocks of "New Lost Land"; "Alive from France & England" with a clown raising his fist and his foot at a Frenchman (echoing the sign, "Alive from America", in Hogarth's print); at the top of the house a Spaniard and a Frenchman, both grinning, look out of a window."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Variant state without imprint and with different price, added in top right corner. See British Museum catalogue., In upper right corner: Price 1 sh., and Four columns of verse below image: See here my good masters a fine raree show, will please ev'ry one from the high to the low ...
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Whitefield, George, 1714-1770, and D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Bagpipes, Clergy, Devil, Hangings (Executions), National emblems, French, Scottish, Newspapers, Puppet shows, Signs (Notices), Theatrical productions, and Wheelbarrows
Title from item., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Another state without plate number and with slight change in the text of the Speaker's balloon. Cf. No. 3987 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : E. Sumpter, 1763., Temporary local subject terms: Racing: horse races -- Devil -- Lawyers: barrister as an owl -- Coalitions: France and Spain, 1762, and Mounted to 26 x 32 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779
A defense of the unpopular ministry of John Stuart, third Earl of Bute, Hogarth takes off from a print published in August 1762 "John Bull's House sett in Flames". He depicts a London street scene in which the half the buildlings are in flames as the political factions either stir the flames or are battling to extinguish them. The fire is the Seven Years' War and the houses, Germany and France; the two men clasping hands are France and Spain who had recently joined in the fight against England
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Series title etched below image., Third state as described by Paulson, with the figure of Henry VIII transformed into a portrait of William Pitt., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: 3d impression., and Formerly on page 193 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Cities & towns, Fires, Fire fighting, Firefighting equipment, and Signs (Notices)
A defense of the unpopular ministry of John Stuart, third Earl of Bute, Hogarth takes off from a print published in August 1762 "John Bull's House sett in Flames". He depicts a London street scene in which the half the buildlings are in flames as the political factions either stir the flames or are battling to extinguish them. The fire is the Seven Years' War and the houses, Germany and France; the two men clasping hands are France and Spain who had recently joined in the fight against England
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Series title etched below image., Third state as described by Paulson, with the figure of Henry VIII transformed into a portrait of William Pitt., and 1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 249 x 308 mm, on sheet 261 x 343 mm, mounted to 330 x 470 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Cities & towns, Fires, Fire fighting, Firefighting equipment, and Signs (Notices)
A defense of the unpopular ministry of John Stuart, third Earl of Bute, Hogarth takes off from a print published in August 1762 "John Bull's House sett in Flames". He depicts a London street scene in which the half the buildlings are in flames as the political factions either stir the flames or are battling to extinguish them. The fire is the Seven Years' War and the houses, Germany and France; the two men clasping hands are France and Spain who had recently joined in the fight against England
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Series title etched below image., Third state as described by Paulson, with the figure of Henry VIII transformed into a portrait of William Pitt., and 1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 247 x 308 mm, on sheet 264 x 330 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Cities & towns, Fires, Fire fighting, Firefighting equipment, and Signs (Notices)
A defense of the unpopular ministry of John Stuart, third Earl of Bute, Hogarth takes off from a print published in August 1762 "John Bull's House sett in Flames". He depicts a London street scene in which the half the buildlings are in flames as the political factions either stir the flames or are battling to extinguish them. The fire is the Seven Years' War and the houses, Germany and France; the two men clasping hands are France and Spain who had recently joined in the fight against England
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Series title etched below image., Third state as described by Paulson, with the figure of Henry VIII transformed into a portrait of William Pitt., and 1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 249 x 308 mm, on sheet 261 x 343 mm, mounted to 330 x470 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Cities & towns, Fires, Fire fighting, Firefighting equipment, and Signs (Notices)
Title from item., Publisher from the book for which this plate was engraved., Reduced copy of the Darly print (see Stephens)., Plate numbered '11' in upper right corner., One line of text below image: See Fox and goose and [?] to Boot, may Tyburn always bear such fruit., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison. [5th ed.] [London, 1763], Temporary local subject terms: Executions: Tyburn 'tree'., and Mounted to 27 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Title from item., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Two lines of verse below image: Mac with a thistle turned Jack Ketch, makes poor Britannia shew her breech., First state, without jack boot and Magna Charta in the image, of no. 3945 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Temporary local subject terms: Punishments: whipping -- British Lion -- Emblems: thistle (Scotland) -- Executioners: reference to Jack Ketch, d. 1686., and Mounted to 25 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, artist
Published / Created:
[1762?]
Call Number:
762.00.00.110
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire, with figures drawn virtually in outline, including the images on artist easels. Starting from the right, the Princess of Wales, mother of George III, leans on a table, her skirts around her hips exposing her derrière to the bare-breeched Earl of Bute who stoops toward her. To the left of him is the French minister the Duc of Nivernois who also bows obsequiously toward the Earl and Princess. In the middle of the image are the representatives of Holland and Spain. On the left Hogarth in a Scotch kilt stands before his easel painting a large jack-boot; behind him is another canvas with a portrait of Pitt that has been scratched out. All of the images have speech bubbles in which they discuss how to curry favor at court. The satirical comments are directed against Hogarth after he accepted the position of Serjeant Painter to the King
Alternative Title:
Tit for tat, Kiss my a--e is no treason, and Kiss my arse is no treason
Description:
Title from text etched above image., "By the Marquis Townshend". See British Museum catalogue, no 3978., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778