Title from item., Plate numbered '38' in upper right corner., Four lines of verse below image: When ev'ry venal scribbling fool, presumes to censor those who rule ..., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Sedition -- Newspapers: The Monitor -- The Briton -- The North Briton -- Journals: The Patriot -- Signs: signboards -- Emblems: Caduceus -- Buildings: inn -- Fishing nets -- Allusion to Count Heinrich von Brühl, 1700-1763 -- Reference to the Earl of Bute -- Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- Arthur Beardmore, d. 1771 --Mottoes: veluti in speculo., and Mounted to 25 x 32 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
Satire of a witch carrying two Scotsmen on a broomstick from Edinburgh to London, the thistle being an emblemic reference to Scotland and the crown, to England. The coat of arms engraved at top of image with quote from Hopkins Junr. on left and Joel Chap. 2, Ver. 3. The title is a reference to Fingal by James MacPherson
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Title etched below image., Reduced and reversed copy of: The flying machine from Edinburgh in one day, perform'd by Moggy Mackensie at the Thistle and Crown. See British Museum catalogue., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. ... [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Plate numbered '24' in upper right corner., and Mounted to 32 x 41 cm.
Satire of a witch carrying two Scotsmen on a broomstick from Edinburgh to London, the thistle being an emblemic reference to Scotland and the crown, to England. The coat of arms engraved at top of image with quote from Hopkins Junr. on left and Joel Chap. 2, Ver. 3. The title is a reference to Fingal by James MacPherson
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Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., "Price 6d.", Placement instructions in upper right corner: Brit. Antid. No. 24., Variant state, with placement line and publication date added, of No. 3859 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 21.
Title etched above image., Publisher and date from the book for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison [5th ed.]. [London], [1763], One line of text below image: See Britons Stuard turnd away and Stuart Scot now bearing sway., Plate numbered '11' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings -- Lighting., and Mounted to 27 x 35 cm.
Title from item., Plate numbered '7' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ..., for the year 1762. [London, 1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Gardening: watering can -- Furniture: kitchen table -- Flowers -- Food: fish -- Kitchen equipment: spits., and Mounted to 27 x 30 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782 and Spencer, Charles, Lord, 1740-1820
Subject (Topic):
Clocks & watches, Cooking utensils, Cooks, Dogs, Fireplaces, and Kitchens
Title from item., Plate numbered '30' in upper right corner., Two columns of verse below image: See the coach fill'd with Scotish thanes / A female managing the reins ..., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Dismemberment of the British Empire -- Vehicles: coach., and Mounted to 31 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
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
"Satire on the influence of Lord Bute on the young George III, showing the king and queen, as a lion and lionness, in a coach decorated with thistles, driven at speed by Princess Augusta with Bute at her feet whipping on the horses and throwing out coins; Britannia has fallen and is about to be run over by the coach. Henry Fox rides postillion, asking for instructions from Bute who replies that the route is "through [the Princess of] Wales". A Scots footman warns that William Pitt is following; Pitt and Newcastle gallop after the coach while Cumberland has been thrown from the "H[anove]r" horse". Lord Mansfield and another Scottish peer (identified in the verses below as "Jockey Americanus") ride beside the coach "to guard 'em along". A group of Scotsmen in the foreground cheeer Bute on. Etched title and three columns of verse below."--British Museum online catalogue, description of alternate state
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Title etched above image., Plate numbered '30' in upper right corner., Two columns of verse below image: See the coach fill'd with Scotish thanes, a female managing the reins ..., Restrike of no. 3898 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, and Temporary local subject terms: Dismemberment of the British Empire -- Vehicles: coach.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
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
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '9' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- George Grenville, 1712-1770., and Mounted to 26 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1720-1764, Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Title from item., Reduced and reversed copy., Plate numbered '14' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. ... [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Animals: zebra -- Scots -- Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- Reference to James Stuart McKenzie, d. 1800., and Mounted to 31 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792