- Published / Created:
- [1762]
- Call Number:
- 762.00.00.29
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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, Coach overturned, and Coach overturn'd
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., and Four columns of verse below image: With raptures Britannia take notice at last, proud Sawney turn'd over by driving too fast ...
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A prophecy. The coach overturn'd, or, The fall of Mortimer [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [1763]
- Call Number:
- 762.10.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Below image: An account of the blocks their origin &c., with an escutcheon showing a jack boot in the center of text., Plate numbered: 49., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: land tax, 1762 -- Barbers: wig blocks -- Newspapers: North Briton -- Auditor -- Coffee-houses: Cocoa Tree Coffee House -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- Pugilists: Nailer ('Nail'em') -- Trades: coachmen -- Coachmen: fighting coachman, Stephenson 'Flogg'em.', and Mounted to 31 x 27 cm.
- Publisher:
- E. Sumpter
- Subject (Name):
- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Dashwood, Francis, Sir, 1708-1781, Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Kirby, Joshua, 1716-1774
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A set of blocks for Hogarth's wigs [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- publish'd accoding [sic] act of Parliament, Sepr. 2d 1762.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satirical riposte to Hogarth's 'The Times': A scene in St. James's Street ... reading the newspaper 'North Briton' ... -- the loss of Newfoundland
- Alternative Title:
- John Bull's house sett in flames and John Bull's house set in flames
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price 6d."--Below middle column of verse., Second state, with plaid design added to Lord Bute's nightshirt and additional cross-hatching in foreground., Three columns of verse below titie: Iohn Bulls house in flames, to whom is this owing, that's what we've to tell you. There look at them blowing ..., and On page 289 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 24.4 x 28.9 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and St. James's Palace (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Fire engines, Military uniforms, British, and Signs (Notices)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Iohn Bull's house sett in flames [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- publish'd accoding [sic] act of Parliament, Sepr. 2d 1762.
- Call Number:
- 762.09.02.01.1+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satirical riposte to Hogarth's 'The Times Plate 1' (Paulson 211) contrasting particular elements of that print to suggest that Lord Bute is creating faction within the country while Pitt and his supporters attempt to calm the situation. St James's Palace is ablaze; flames issuing from the gate set fire to an inn sign of the globe lettered "New Lost Land" (a reference to the recent loss of Newfoundland). On the left, Bute, wearing a tartan night shirt, holding a large pair of bellows, runs away from the fire but encourages it by breaking wind; two other Scots, crouching, also break wind, one of them addressing the other as "Brother Small Wit" (i.e., Tobias Smollett); Henry Fox runs away from Bute's supporters crying, "D[am]n the Dogs how they stink I'll turn my tail on them". On the right, Pitt stands on a fire engine directing a jet of water on the fire (in contrast to Hogarth's print where he stands on stilts fanning the flames while a supporter of the king is the chief fire fighter); the pump is manned by the Dukes of Newcastle and Cumberland and sailors who parallel the prominent sailor in Hogarth's print. Cumberland complains that the "machine is sadly out of Order" (meaning government) to which Newcastle responds "Yes ever since you left it", referring to Cumberland's resignation from military command. The sailors allude to Pitt's letter of October 1761 to William Beckford in which he explains his resignation "in order not to remain responsible for measures which I was no longer allowed to guide" (published in the Annual Register, 1761, p.300); they compare Pitt as the "Master [who] Guides it well" with Bute whose action is a wind that "encreases the Flame" and "comes from a very foul quarter". Charles Churchill, in clerical dress, walks towards the Pitt's group carrying a bucket labelled "North Briton" and offering to "help without hope of a Pension", an allusion to payments made by the Crown both to Hogarth and to Pitt. In the background, to left, a group of men look on saying the "Squire" (the king) and his family are "safe on the other side" (implying they have joined the opponents of Lord Bute, which was not in fact the case); one man continues to encourage Bute, "Blow away my Lad they will expend all their Water soon". Etched verses below describe the scene in scurrilous terms suggesting that the fire began in "the Welch Ladys Bed Room", i.e., that of Princess Augusta, and call for quenching of the "Fire of Party."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- John Bull's house set in flames
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom., Three columns of verse below titie: Iohn Bulls hous in flames, to whom is this owing, / That's what we've to tell you. There look at them blowing / New lost land is done for, and all the worlds going ..., "Price 6d.", Temporary local subject terms: Buildings -- London: St. James's Street -- Newspapers: North Briton -- Naval uniforms: sailor's uniform -- Seven Years' War: reference to the loss of Newfoundland -- Signboards -- Fire-engines., and Watermark: countermark I V.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Saint James's Palace (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Fires, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), Bellows, Flatulence, Fire fighting, and Sailors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Iohn Bull's house sett in flames [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- publish'd accoding [sic] act of Parliament, Sepr. 2d 1762.
- Call Number:
- 762.09.02.01.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satirical riposte to Hogarth's 'The Times': A scene in St. James's Street ... reading the newspaper 'North Briton' ... -- the loss of Newfoundland
- Alternative Title:
- John Bull's house sett in flames and John Bull's house set in flames
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price 6d."--Below middle column of verse., Second state, with plaid design added to Lord Bute's nightshirt and additional cross-hatching in foreground., Three columns of verse below titie: Iohn Bulls house in flames, to whom is this owing, that's what we've to tell you. There look at them blowing ..., and Window mounted to 28 x 39 cm, mounted again to 34 x 46 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and St. James's Palace (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Fire engines, Military uniforms, British, and Signs (Notices)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Iohn Bull's house sett in flames [graphic].
- Creator:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sawney discover'd, or, The Scotch Intruders 1760 [graphic].
- Creator:
- Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1761]
- Call Number:
- 761.00.00.03.1
- 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 etched below image., Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The top sheet contains the 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., and Mounted.
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sawney discover'd, or, The Scotch intruders 1760 [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [May 1763]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Reduced copy, from "The mountebank" (British Museum catalogue no. 3854), with out the inscriptions on the papers. The charletan's speech ends with : .. See here my lads heres the Golden Lozenges which will cure ye all make ye hauld up yr. heads and turn out mucle southern loons. A crowd mostly wearing Scotch plaid assemble on a mountebank's stage, bowing to him. Behind a line of curtains suggest a bed and a box of treasure on the floor. Lord Bute is the charlatan and stands holding money bags in each hand. A middle aged woman in a Welsh hat (the Princess of Wales) looks from between the curtains and listens with pleasure to the charlatan. The zany of the quack is a gaunt man in a Scotch plaid dressing gown and a tall fool's cap and holding a copy of "The Briton" under his arm and a horn in his girdle
- Alternative Title:
- Scotch quack
- Description:
- Title from item., Title etched below image; expanded title from British Museum catalogue., Later state has the number '20' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. 5th ed. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., and On page 296 in volume 3.
- Publisher:
- E. Sumpter
- Subject (Name):
- Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
- Subject (Topic):
- Crowds, Ethnic stereotypes, Hats, National emblems, Scottish, Welsh, Quacks, and Swindlers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The - quack [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [May 1763]
- Call Number:
- 762.05.00.19.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Reduced copy, from "The mountebank" (British Museum catalogue no. 3854), with out the inscriptions on the papers. The charletan's speech ends with : .. See here my lads heres the Golden Lozenges which will cure ye all make ye hauld up yr. heads and turn out mucle southern loons. A crowd mostly wearing Scotch plaid assemble on a mountebank's stage, bowing to him. Behind a line of curtains suggest a bed and a box of treasure on the floor. Lord Bute is the charlatan and stands holding money bags in each hand. A middle aged woman in a Welsh hat (the Princess of Wales) looks from between the curtains and listens with pleasure to the charlatan. The zany of the quack is a gaunt man in a Scotch plaid dressing gown and a tall fool's cap and holding a copy of "The Briton" under his arm and a horn in his girdle
- Alternative Title:
- Scotch quack
- Description:
- Title etched below image; expanded title from British Museum catalogue., Numbered '20' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. 5th ed. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., and Mounted to 33 x 43 cm.
- Publisher:
- E. Sumpter
- Subject (Name):
- Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
- Subject (Topic):
- Crowds, Ethnic stereotypes, Hats, National emblems, Scottish, Welsh, Quacks, and Swindlers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The - quack [graphic].
- Creator:
- Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1764]
- Call Number:
- 762.10.03.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An etching, showing Earl Talbot, who was Lord Steward of the Household, standing behind a "Fire Screen", on the floor near which are two saucepans ... duel ... Bagshot Heath"-- British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Pot-lid & inkhorn and Pot-lid and inkhorn
- Description:
- Title from caption etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Publication place and date from book in which this plate appeared. Publication date in British Museum catalogue: 1762., Plate numbered '26' in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The second volume of The British antidote to Caledonian poison. London: E. Sumpter, [1764]., and Mounted to 33 x 31cm.
- Publisher:
- E. Sumpter
- Subject (Name):
- Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- Caricatures and cartoons and Dueling
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Bagshot frolick, or, The pot-lid & inkhorn [graphic].