"Satire on the dispute about whether peace should be forced on Britian. Britannia turns away, her "Bowels are all in an uproar", as a politician (presumably the Duke of Bedford, negotiator with France) holds out a phial containing the "Compostion of Peace"; behind him others discuss whether she should take it; Pitt is concerned that "she is but a Woman and her Constitution is weak", but Bute (dressed in tartan with a large jack boot) suggests that they form the medicine into "a Bolus [and] Gild it"; Cumberland warns that Bute could be answerable if Britannia is destroyed."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Political quacks
Description:
Title from item. and Reduced and reversed copy, without verse and with changes to speech balloons, of No. 3923 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4. Not the same as a reduced and reversed copy published in The British antidote to Caledonian poison.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839
"Satire on Samuel Martin's duel with Wilkes. On the left, two Scotsmen support Lord Sandwich who is holding up a copy of Wilkes's Essay on Woman saying, "This will do for him I warrant ye". In front of them the diminutive figure of Samuel Martin fires a shot at a mouse representing Wilkes. In the centre, behind Martin, a group of four men express their horror at the Essay: Kidgell proclaiming, "I'll publish a Narrative about it", Bishop Warburton holding up a copy and condemning it as blasphemy, and Lord Lyttleton crying, "O 'tis so shocking I can't bear it." In the centre, a Scot (Bute?) wearing a bonnet with a feather draws his sword at the mouse. To the right, Britannia, naked to the waist, swoons as a rat representing Bute attacks her heart; she is attended by Newcastle, Temple, Pitt and Cumberland. Engraved inscriptions and speech-balloons, letterpress title and verses in two columns, and one vertical and one horizontal segment of type ornament."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Great ***** in an uproar and Great house in an uproar
Description:
Caption title in letterpress below image plate mark (17.5 x 23.5 cm)., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two columns of verse in letterpress below title, separated vertically with an ornamental border. When a certain great ***** was alarm'd at a mouse, they vow'd that they'd quickly ***** him ..., and Publisher's advertisement below verses, following imprint: ... where may be had, The British antidote to Caledonian poison, 2 vols. Price 5s.
Publisher:
Sold by E. Sumpter, three doors from Shoe-Lane, Fleet-Street
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Martin, Samuel, -1788., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Warburton, William, 1698-1779, and Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Ten images, each with its own title., Two lines of verse below each image., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: of whom may be had The asses of Gr--- Br----n, The laird of the Boot, Without & within, & The fall of Mortimer., Temporary local subject terms: Punishment: flogging -- British Lion -- Buildings: Treasury., and Mounted to 31 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament by J. Williams, bookseller next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Gallows, and Signs (Notices)
Title from caption etched above image., Publication place and date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 30 x 39 cm., mounted again to 33 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Mylne, Robert, 1734-1811
Title etched above image., Following imprint: Pr. 6 pence., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Four columns of verse below image: See here my good masters a fine raree show, will please ev'ry one from the high to the low ...
Publisher:
Sold at Sumpters Political Printshop, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Whitefield, George, 1714-1770, and D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723.
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Britannia (Symbolic character), Bagpipes, Clergy, Devil, Hangings (Executions), National emblems, French, Scottish, Newspapers, Puppet shows, Signs (Notices), Theatrical productions, and Wheelbarrows
"Satire on the negotiations leading to the Peace of Paris in response to Hogarth's "The Times Part 1", but also with visual echoes of his much earlier print, "Southwark Fair". In the centre is a large theatrical booth advertising "The Full and Whole Play of Dido and Aeneas" with a show-cloth on which the lovers are depicted taking shelter in a cave; below is platform on which stand Bute and Princess Augusta accompanied by a zany, a drummer (Arthur Murphy) and a trumpeter (Tobias Smollett). Hogarth, portrayed as an ape, stands on a ladder painting a sign-board with a portrait of Pitt (echoing the sign painter in "Beer Street"); at the foot of the ladder another ape, representing the Duke of Bedford, ambassador to Paris, sits on a small table holding a sheet marked "Prelim Peace". Henry Fox looks out of a window at the top of the booth. On the left, Bute stands on stilts playing the bagpipes with a large bag of money hanging from his neck; he is supported by admiring Scotsmen and adored by a group of bishops. Behind him is an inn with the sign of the thistle advertising "Geud Scrubbing for Mon and Horse"; an ass peers throuh a window and an ass's skull hangs above. Beyond, Scotsmen rejoice as buildings burn, while three fireman sleep beside their engine; an owl representing the French ambassador, the Duke de Nivernois, flies overhead carrying on olive branch (in place of Hogarth's dove with the olive branch) . In the foreground a mastiff urinates on an impression of Hogarth's "The Times Part 1"; Charles Churchill gestures towards a bonfire on which is burning "The Wandsworth Epistle" and "The Briton" (Smollett's newspaper) while a sailor, watched by Britannia, brings a wheelbarrow laden with other journals (echoing the barrow containing "The North Briton" in Hogarth's print). Behind this group, William Beckford draws the attention of Pitt, Temple and Newcastle to the happy Scots; Cumberland, bald-headed, shakes his fist. The British lion grasps a dead French cock in his jaws and looks angrily at a Frenchman who hands coins to a Dutchman leaning on a bale marked "Neutrality" (a similar Dutchman in Hogarth's print sits on a bale smoking contentedly). Behind the lion, George Whitefield, arms outspread and a devil blowing with bellows into his ear, preaches from a three-legged stool to an old woman with a prayer-book and a man with the head of an ass. On the left, three further show-cloths hang on the wall of a house, referring to performances at "Punch Political Poppet Show with a Scotch Uproar": "Then", with the figure of Fame crowning a British commander; "Now", with a Scotsman at the prow of a boat foundering on the rocks of "New Lost Land"; "Alive from France & England" with a clown raising his fist and his foot at a Frenchman (echoing the sign, "Alive from America", in Hogarth's print); at the top of the house a Spaniard and a Frenchman, both grinning, look out of a window."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Variant state without imprint and with different price, added in top right corner. See British Museum catalogue., In upper right corner: Price 1 sh., and Four columns of verse below image: See here my good masters a fine raree show, will please ev'ry one from the high to the low ...
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Whitefield, George, 1714-1770, and D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Bagpipes, Clergy, Devil, Hangings (Executions), National emblems, French, Scottish, Newspapers, Puppet shows, Signs (Notices), Theatrical productions, and Wheelbarrows
Title from caption etched at top of image., Mary Darly located at the Golden Acorn on this date., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: the white horse of Hanover -- British Lion -- Buildings: temple -- Flags: map of Germany as a flag., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and Mounted to 32 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
To be had at the Golden Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, and Barnard, John, Sir, 1685-1764
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character) and Britannia (Symbolic character)
Title from item., Publisher from the book for which this plate was engraved., Reduced copy of the Darly print (see Stephens)., Plate numbered '11' in upper right corner., One line of text below image: See Fox and goose and [?] to Boot, may Tyburn always bear such fruit., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison. [5th ed.] [London, 1763], Temporary local subject terms: Executions: Tyburn 'tree'., and Mounted to 27 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Two lines of quote below image: -- yet be not sad, good brothers / For to speak the truth it very well becomes you. Shakespeare., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 2 (1768), p.66., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: truck -- Pcitures amplifying subject -- Ministries: Grafton Administration -- Male dress: waistcoats -- Influence: Lord Bute's influence -- Punishment: birch rod -- Edward Bright, 1721-1750., and Mounted to 37 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770, De Grey, William, Baron Walsingham, 1719-1781, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Willes, Edward, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Northington, Robert Henley, Earl of, 1708?-1772
Title from item., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Two lines of verse below image: Mac with a thistle turned Jack Ketch, makes poor Britannia shew her breech., First state, without jack boot and Magna Charta in the image, of no. 3945 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Temporary local subject terms: Punishments: whipping -- British Lion -- Emblems: thistle (Scotland) -- Executioners: reference to Jack Ketch, d. 1686., and Mounted to 25 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778