- Published / Created:
- [April 1763]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satire with three-quarters length portraits of Wilkes (left), Bute (middle), and Hogarth (right) in oval cartouches; below each portrait is an acrostic of the name of the sitter above. Wilkes holds a book marked "North Briton, No. 17" which was published 25 September 1762. In front of the portrait at the base of the oval is a book marked "North Briton No. 45". Wilkes's frame is decorated with a cap, staff, and wreath of "Liberty"; on a ribbon is "Magna Carta". Bute looks out at the viewer, a book inscribed "Cyder and Perry &c. &c" at the base of the oval frame; a scourge and manacles are place on either side of the frame, alluding to the prosecution undertaken by the ministry of Lord Bute. Hogarth is shown in profile sketching Wilkes and looking across the portrait of Bute. The book at the base of the frame is "Line of Beauty". The heads of Folly and Envy decorate the frame; above is Hogarth's dog Trump
- Alternative Title:
- Champions of liberty
- Description:
- Title engraved in banner above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 295 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 23.7 x 31.5 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
- Subject (Topic):
- Caricatures and cartoons, Artists, Dogs, National emblems, Scottish, Newspapers, and Politicians
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The grand triumvirate, or, Champions of liberty [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [April 1763]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 763.04.00.04 Impression 2 Box 111
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satire with three-quarters length portraits of Wilkes (left), Bute (middle), and Hogarth (right) in oval cartouches; below each portrait is an acrostic of the name of the sitter above. Wilkes holds a book marked "North Briton, No. 17" which was published 25 September 1762. In front of the portrait at the base of the oval is a book marked "North Briton No. 45". Wilkes's frame is decorated with a cap, staff, and wreath of "Liberty"; on a ribbon is "Magna Carta". Bute looks out at the viewer, a book inscribed "Cyder and Perry &c. &c" at the base of the oval frame; a scourge and manacles are place on either side of the frame, alluding to the prosecution undertaken by the ministry of Lord Bute. Hogarth is shown in profile sketching Wilkes and looking across the portrait of Bute. The book at the base of the frame is "Line of Beauty". The heads of Folly and Envy decorate the frame; above is Hogarth's dog Trump
- Alternative Title:
- Champions of liberty
- Description:
- Title engraved in banner above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Numbered in ms. on verso: N14290.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
- Subject (Topic):
- Caricatures and cartoons, Artists, Dogs, National emblems, Scottish, Newspapers, and Politicians
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The grand triumvirate, or, Champions of liberty [graphic].