"Satire on the dispute about whether peace should be forced on Britian. Britannia turns away, her "Bowels are all in an uproar", as a politician (presumably the Duke of Bedford, negotiator with France) holds out a phial containing the "Compostion of Peace"; behind him others discuss whether she should take it; Pitt is concerned that "she is but a Woman and her Constitution is weak", but Bute (dressed in tartan with a large jack boot) suggests that they form the medicine into "a Bolus [and] Gild it"; Cumberland warns that Bute could be answerable if Britannia is destroyed."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Political quacks
Description:
Title from item. and Reduced and reversed copy, without verse and with changes to speech balloons, of No. 3923 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4. Not the same as a reduced and reversed copy published in The British antidote to Caledonian poison.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839
Title from item., Publication date in Stephens: August 1762., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Dedication within design etched below images: To the King of the Cherokees a lover of Englishmen this prints is inscribed by his most obedient slave, the author., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Whitehall (Treasury Building) -- Interiors: Treasury -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Seven Years War: reference to Newfoundland -- Reference to the Cherokee chiefs - -Military uniforms: Scotch uniforms -- Vehicles: cart -- Sland: coal (cole), i.e., money -- Sentry -- Scots., and Mounted to 34 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
Title from and illustration to the accompanying ballad, engraved on separate plate but printed on the same sheet below the image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Four stanzas of a ballad engraved on a separate plate, printed below the image: I. Of all the fools who've lately writ, / To show the Town they wanted wit ..., "Price 6d.", Temporary local subject terms: Animals: zebra -- Putti -- Song-writes -- Ballad-singers., Watermark: countermark L V G., and Mounted to 34 x 41 cm.