- Creator:
- Simpson, John, fl. 1779, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Decr 27th 1779.
- Call Number:
- 779.12.27.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Botching tailor cutting his cloth to cover a button
- Description:
- Title from item., Artist and publisher probably fictitious. See British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd by James Tomlinson, Oxford Street
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796., Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788., and Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799.
- Subject (Topic):
- Tailors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The botching taylor cutting his cloth to cover a button [graphic]
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- Published / Created:
- [6 December 1779]
- Call Number:
- 779.12.06.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "On the further side of a stream, inscribed "Rubicon - Flu -", a bull representing John Bull is being baited. On his back sits Lord North in profile to the left., very obese and asleep; at his back is a large square pack, inscribed "Taxes". The bull is held by a rope which is twisted round a post inscribed "The Last Stake", the end being held by a Scotsman in Highland dress intended for Bute, and by a man in judge's wig and robes, evidently Mansfield. Two other members of 'the Junto' are goading the bull on, one with a pole, the other with a club. The bull is being attacked by France with a sword, and Spain with a spear. France wears a coat, hat and bag-wig of French fashion, Spain wears a slashed doublet, ruff and cloak. In front of an inn-door (l.) behind them stands George III, watching the struggle complacently, his hands in his pockets. Above the door the signboard, on which is a crown, is falling off, and hangs from one hook only. From a window a woman's arm empties a chamber-pot on to the king's head. In the foreground, on the nearer side of the "Rubicon" a Dutchman (r.) stands facing the wall of a building, urinating on a paper inscribed "British Memorial".--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., The names of the artists indicate that the plight of the country is due to the designs of Bute (Stuart), carried on by Mansfield (Murray) and executed by the Junto., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd according to act Decr. 6, 1779, for J. Almon ...
- Subject (Name):
- Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The last stake [graphic]