A group of four persons -- the Princess of Wales, Earl of Bute, the Queen, and the King -- stand up and dance before five courtiers who sit, three along the wall on the left, two along the wall on the right. A bagpiper on the left plays, with the words in a bubble: "up stairs, down stairs in my Ladys Bed Chamber". The five courtiers, including a Scotchman, each have speech bubbles commenting on the scene with references to the Irish, the Scotch jig, Italian masters. A reversed copy of a print by "Paul Ogarth inv. et scratchavit."
Alternative Title:
Windsor minuit 1762 and Windsor minuet 1762
Description:
Title etched above image., Numberd '19' in upper right corner., and Mounted to 31.8 x 34.1 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
"A satire on Lord Bute, his alleged relationship with the Princess of Wales, his supposed influence over the King and his use of writers as to defend his policies. Bute is represented by a boot set up on a pedestal on which is written "English places for Scotch Asses". A large thistle grows from the top of the boot and it is pierced by an arrow lettered "N. Britton". The Princess of Wales stands on the other side of the boot holding a shield with a thistle on it and saying “I'll present my Shield while thou canst Stand and raise thee up when thou art fallen”. At her feet a young lion, George III crouches saying “Tho they don’t shoot at me the darts fall very near”. Three Scotsmen stand behind commenting on the onslaught. Beyond the pedestal Arthur Murphy holds up a shield lettered "The Auditor", beside him Tobias Smollett holds the shield of "The Britton"; both shields have been damaged, the Briton by an arrow labelled "Monitor" that has been fired by Arthur Beardmore, editor of that journal. Beside Beardmore, on the right, Charles Churchill, in clerical dress, having just torn Murphy's shield and pierced the boot, lowers his bow saying “My country's good directs me where to aim”. Beside him the duke of Cumberland praises Churchill’s shot; next to the Duke, Earl Temple, also holding a bow, declares “We’ll down with this Scotch fool”; standing close behind him, William Pitt adds “’tis the general Cause Our Liberty”. Two columns of etched verse beneath."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
English archers
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: jack boot (Lord Bute) -- Newspapers: reference to North Briton -- British Lion -- Emblems: thistle (Scotland) -- A. Breadmore, fl. 1762., and Mounted to 31 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
Title from item., Publication place and date from book for which this plate was published., Plate numbered '42' in upper right corner., Plate from: The second volume of The British antidote to Caledonian poison. London: E. Sumpter, [1764]., Temporary local subject terms: Treaties: reference to the peace negotiations, Paris, 1762 -- British Lion -- Furniture: cradles -- Emblems: thistle -- Emblems: olive branch -- Escutcheons: Britain -- Escutcheons: France., and Mounted to 27 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1762]
Call Number:
762.09.00.25
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
True contrast
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Publisher probably Mary Darly. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, no. 3912, Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Tents -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Emblems: petticoat for the Princess of Wales -- Treaties: Treaty of Paris, 1763 -- Mottoes: mores, homines., Unidentified watermark, possibly Vryheyt., and Mounted to 35 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. in Ryders Court and to be had at the sign of the pannel painter in Cheapside or at the bust of Impudence alias the brazen head in Leicester Square
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
"Satire in the form of a transparency on the Earl of Bute and his dominance of the king in contrast to the Duke of Cumberland's loyalty, with a reference to William Hogarth. A large tartan military tent decorated with an irradiated jack-boot from which a thistle emerges; fleurs-de-lis on the border of the roof. On the left, stands Cumberland, "Emblem of England" vowing to stop "this Scotch & French scheme"; on the right, stands the Duke of Nivernois, "Emblem of the state of France", trembling in fear of Cumberland. When held to the light figures within the tent (printed on a backing sheet) are revealed: Princess Augusta and Bute express their mutual affection while George III stands beneath a petticoat implying female rule."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
True contrast
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '23' 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: Tents -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Emblems: petticoat for the Princess of Wales., and Mounted to 30 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
"Satire on the negotiations for the Peace of Paris. A lion and lioness (the King and Queen) look in alarm from the window of a coach (Great Britain) as it crashes against a large rock. Lord Bute, the driver, and Princess Augusta, who has been sitting beside him, fall headlong to the ground and the horses (bearing names connected with British actions in the Seven Years War: "Germany", "Guardeloup", "Pondechery", "America", "Martinico" and "Quebec") run off. Bute cries out, "De'el dam that Havanna Snuff its all most blinded me". The postilion, Henry Fox, lies on the ground having hit his head on a rock labelled "Newfound Land"; a speech balloon lettered "Snugg" emerges from his mouth. Behind him Pitt, holding a whip, grasps the leading horse's reins; the Marquis of Granby gallops up to assist him, together with William Beckford (who was shortly to become Lord Mayor of London) and the Duke of Newcastle. In the foreground is a conflict involving a number of journalists: Bute's supporters, Arthur Murphy and Tobias Smollett shoot their pistols at Pitt, and further to the right Charles Churchill, in clerical robes, fires a cannon labelled "North Briton" at them, causing another man to fall to the ground his arm resting on a copy of the Gazetteer (the fallen man must be either Charles Say, editor, or John Almon, contributor to the Gazetteer, an anti-Bute newspaper), with the headline, "A letter from Darlington" (a reference to Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington, a relation of Bute's by marriage). The British lion beside Churchill urinates on the Scottish thistle. Behind this group, the Duke of Cumberland runs forward anxiously mopping his bald head, having lost his wig. In the background are Lord Mansfield and the Earl of Loudon, the latter suggesting that they retreat (a reference to his failure to capture Louisbourg from the French in 1757). To the right a group of Scotsmen are driven off by two Englishmen with whips; another Scot sits on the ground scratching himself."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fall of Mortimer and Coach overturned
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Two columns of verse below image: With raptures, Britannia take notice at last, proud Sawney's turn'd over by driving too fast ..., Plate numbered '31' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's, [1763]., and Mounted to 29 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
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, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770, and Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330.
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Politics and government, Cannons, Carriages & coaches, Journalists, National emblems, British, Scottish, and Newspapers
Title from item., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate numbered '8' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sumpter's, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: jack boot (Lord Bute) -- British Lion -- Dancing -- Viola --Drum -- Flags: royal standard of Scotland -- Literature: reference to Gisbal, an hyperborean tale -- Royal arms -- Mottoes: nemo me lacessit., and Mounted to 32 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
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
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