"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
Description:
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., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- George Grenville, 1712-1770., Mounted to 34 x 45 cm., Watermark., and Subjects identified and other information added on recto in a contemporary hand.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
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
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[September 1762]
Call Number:
762.09.00.07
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Scotch preferment in motion, Monsuiers will you ride, and Monsieurs will you ride
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Animals: zebra -- White Horse of Hanover -- Scots., and Watermark: unidentified countermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 7 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
John Bull stands defiantly in the center of a crowd of angry men -- military officers, gentlemen of various ages, tradesmen, and an amputee -- most of whom hold out bills ranging between £50 and £5000; the speech bubbles above their heads read: "King's taxes"; "Police rate"; "Parish rates"; "Excise duties"; "Tithes church rates pew rents & Easter doos [sic]"; "Sundres &c." John Bull's response reads, "Damme ye had better devour me., ye voratious crew. Am I never to have my hands out of my pocket again, but 't wont last long lads. I shall soon be in the Gazette & then ye lazy drones ye must work hard for you own livings." The man with a large belly on the lower right carries a little dog under his arm
Description:
Title from caption written below image., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., Paper watermarked: J.R. 1828., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Taxation, Anger, Crowds, Demonstrations, Dogs, Men, Military officers, and Obesity
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Quacks -- Zannies -- Peace negotiations with France, 1762 -- Newspapers: The Auditor -- Newspapers: The Monitor -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Demons -- Trades: street pedlar -- Medical instruments: clyster pipes -- Medicine bottles -- Naval uniforms: sailors' uniform -- Letters: "Wandsworth Epistle" -- Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- Reference to Lord Temple., and Mounted to 35 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title from item., Publication date from from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Newspapers: The Briton -- Newspapers: The North Briton -- Newspapers: The Monitor -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- British Lion -- Seven Years War: reference to Newfoundland -- Orders: Order of the Garter (star and ribbon) -- Literature: reference to Gisbal : a Hyperboran tale / translated from the fragments of Ossian, the son of Fingal -- Literature: reference to Shakespeare., and Mounted to 30 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1739-1767, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, and Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805
Title from item., Publication date from from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Twelve lines of verse in three columns below image: O Albion couldn't experience show, or wont your annals tell ..., Temporary local subject terms: The Cocoa Tree Coffee House -- Bedford Head Tavern -- Seven Years War: reference to Havana -- Bible: reference to the Song of Solomon, 2:5 -- Reference to Daniel 5:27 -- Literature: quotation from Congreve -- Quotation from Shakespeare -- Songs: reference to John Anderson my Jo -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with unidentified initials below.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[September 1762]
Call Number:
762.09.00.23
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Scotch pedler
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Animals: zebra -- Scots -- Slang: coal, i.e., money -- Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- Reference to James Stuart McKenzie, d. 1800.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
A whimsically portrayed Horace Walpole makes a shushing gesture with one finger on his lips while holding an empty picking basket in his other hand. A small lapdog with a decorative bow tied around its neck, presumably Tonton, accompanies Walpole on the task. Doctor John Dolittle, the central character in Hugh Lofting's series of children's books also appears in the scene as a young curious boy pointing up towards the hill
Description:
Title from text above image., Date based on watermark: 1914 England., Text penned below title: The dilletante member for King's Lynn sneaks away from Parliament in the midst of an important debate to pick strawberries on Strawberry Hill with his young friend John Dolittle, the naturalist, aged seven., and Text penned below image: Note: the dog shown is the first specimen of the Strawberry-hound introduced into England.