Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1761]
Call Number:
761.00.00.03.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Scotch Intruders 1760
Description:
"Satire on the Scots and on the supposed relationship between Lord Bute and Princess Augusta, showing on the right a curtain decroated with thistles and the Stuart royal motto "Nemo me impune lacessit" behind which the couple are seen fondling each other in company of a short man or boy and another man (identified as "B-T-FI"), both evidently Scots; five Scotsmen and a Scottish woman stand to the left hoping for posts, two of them refer to connections with France."--British Museum online catalogue., Title from item., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., State with the name 'Douglas' added to the figure behind the screen., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and The top sheet contains figures of the Princess of Wales, Lord Bute, and two others, that can be seen behind the screen when the print is viewed against a source of light.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, and Queensberry, William Douglas, Duke of, 1725-1810
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