Title in letter press above image., Publication date based on the date of Lord Bute's appointment in 1762., Two columns of text, separated with vertical ornamental border, below plate: Explanation., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Coats of arms -- Weapons: guns -- Dress: wooden shoes -- Emblems: thistle -- Executioner's axe -- Scots -- Protestants: reference to protestants -- Mottoes: Ense recidendum me pars sincera trabatur immedicabile vulnus.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., and Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Subject (Topic):
Firearms, Gallows, Lawyers, Military uniforms, British, and Shackles
"Satire on Lord Bute in the form of a reply to Henry Howard's bawdy ballad, "The Queen's Ass" (BM Satires 3870): the zebra kicks Howard, who has fallen to the ground, behind him a group of men comprising John Fielding, the three Cherokee chiefs who visited London in 1762, and another who may be identified as the man referred to in the verse below as "M-re [who] sally'd forth the fair Sex to relieve"; on the right, Bute, dressed in tartan and wearing a boot, riding a tamed British Lion; a Jewish stockbroker in the stocks; and George Whitfield looking into a mirror which reflects the image of an ass. In the background Charles Churchill, wielding a stick, chases off Bute's supporters, the journalists Arthur Murphy and Tobias Smollett, who raise their hands in surprise. Engraved inscriptions, title and verses in two columns by "Fartinando", to be sung to the tune of "The Ass in the Chaplet"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Answer to Harry Howard's ass
Description:
Caption title below etching., Engraved broadside poem illustrated with etching at top of sheet (late mark 30.1 x 20 cm). Etching signed: J. Jones delin et sculpt., Harry H----d's = Henry Howard., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., The lion bears some resemblance to those designed by Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale for the Ladies Amusement (first published by Sayer in 1760), especially plate 108, and was perhaps copied from his work. Cf. British Museum online catalogue., Ten stanzas of verse below title: Permit me good people (a whimsical bard) and snarl not [the] critical class ..., and Mounted to 35 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament by J. Williams, next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Whitefield, George, 1714-1770, Fielding, John, Sir, 1721-1780, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
Subject (Topic):
Cherokee Indians, Jews, Clergy, England, National emblems, British, Stocks (Punishment), and Zebras