- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.07.31.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the ministerial changes and payments made to out-going ministers; Admiral Byng is shown in chains holding the dispatches referring to his withdrawal from action at Minorca; Earl Sandwich concerns himself only with opera and theatre."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Council of expedients and Byng returned
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of verse below image: The quacks of government who sate at the unregarded helm of the state ..., Temporary local subject terms: Trials: court-martial of Admiral Byng -- Reference to the Battle of Minorca, 20 May 1756 -- Fetters -- Literature: quotation from Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1612-1680., Watermark., and Mounted, for further information consult staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Minorca (Spain)
- Subject (Name):
- William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Byng, John, 1704-1757, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Shackles, and Scales
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Byng return'd, or, The council of expedients [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [1763]
- Call Number:
- 763.04.08.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two-part satire on the resignation of Lord Bute, April 1763. On the left is a scene of execution, headed "Excise", with Bute, identified by his plaid waistcoat, hanging from an apple tree (referring to the Cider Bill), a devil sitting on the branch above him wears a large boot (a pun on Bute) on one leg, the other ending in a claw; two men below exult. In the centre a man (evidently another representation of Bute as he wears a large boot on one leg and on the other leg wears a garter lettered "Honi ..." as in the scene on the right) lies across a fire while another pumps a pair of bellows to fan the flames; three farmers standing behind the fire and another to the right rejoice at Bute's downfall. On the right, another devil reciting the proverb, "Harm watch, Harm catch", one leg ending in a hammer, sits on top of a gallows from which hangs a fox (Henry Fox) wighted down by money bags tied around his neck. On the right is a scene set in a grand interior, headed "Resignation, in which Princess Augusta sprawls weeping in a chair her breasts partly exposed while a devil delves into Bute's breeches as he drags him through a door through which flames and smoke can be seen, the Duke of Cumberland brandishes a sword in his right hand and pushes Bute with his left; he is encouraged by a nephew, Edward, Duke of York, at lower right, a lusty goat, one of whose hands is a claw, looks on with pleasure."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Excise and Resignation
- Description:
- Title etched below image, between the verses., Two images on one plate, each with caption title above., Eight lines of verse under each image: With greater joy, his L- see, like Judas hanging on a tree ..., Temporary local subject terms: Laws & statutes: Cyder Act, 1763 -- Bute's resignation, April 8, 1763., Watermark., and Subjects identified below plate mark in an unknown hand.
- Publisher:
- J. Williams
- Subject (Name):
- Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1739-1767, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The seizure or give the devil his due being No. I of a sett [sic] of political prints call'd The opposition, the publication of which will be regularly continued evry [sic] Tuesday by I. Williams next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- publisd. according to act 1757.
- Call Number:
- 757.00.00.08
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Temple and pit
- Description:
- 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)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The temple and pitt [graphic].