"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