"Satire on the Stamp Tax of 1765 showing Britannia presenting "Pandoras Box" (the tax) to America (represented by a native American) who appeals to Minerva; the goodess advises "Take it not" pointing to Liberty prostrate on the ground and attacked by ...
Alternative Title:
Sc---h government and Scotch government
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774 and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Mercury, and Minerva
[London?] : publishd according to act of Parliament, [1770]
Call Number:
Drawer 770.00.00.22.1
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Print shows a variety of scenes relating to the politics and government of England and how their actions at home and abroad may result in the loss of the American colonies; scene numbered 24 depicts Boston, Massachusetts, as a European city and shows ...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, Massachusetts, Boston, and United States
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Grenville, George, 1712-1770, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Politics & government, Government officials, Scales, Manners & customs, Industrial productivity, and History
Henry Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790, Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Cornwallis, Frederick, 1713-1783, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Rigby, Richard, 1722-1788, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, and Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Subject (Topic):
Hercules, Britannia (Symbolic character), Harps, and Volcanoes
"At each side of a table are seated figures with the heads and forms of grotesque monsters or animals. The bull-faced Sir Fletcher Norton (the Speaker) presides; in one hand is a scourge, in the other a staff to which are attached bags of money and a ...
Alternative Title:
True portraits of the majority of the Parliament of Pandemonium
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
"Hibernia lies on the ground with her harp broken. On a table (left) are two money bags, one full and labelled "Exchequer", the other decorated with the Irish harp and almost empty. Into this Lord North is plunging his hand while an African with outst...
Description:
Title from the index to the magazine. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Dyson, Jeremiah, 1722-1776, Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806, and Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807
"The interior of a panelled room: ten men holding hands dance in a circle to the tune of a bag-pipe played by Bute (l.) wearing a kilt and appearing from behind a curtain. The king watches with pleased amusement from behind a door (r.). The dancers ar...
Alternative Title:
State cotillion 1773
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793, Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1714-1794, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Dartmouth, William Legge, Earl of, 1731-1801, Dyson, Jeremiah, 1722-1776, Carhampton, Henry Lawes Luttrell, Earl of, 1743-1821, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1739-1779, and Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807
"America, a partly-draped female figure, is being held down by Lord Mansfield (right) in judge's wig and robes, while North, holding her by the throat, pours the contents of a tea-pot down her mouth. America ejects the tea in a stream directed at Nort...
Alternative Title:
America swallowing the bitter draught
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Subject (Topic):
Boston Port Bill, 1774, Boston Tea Party, 1773, Britannia (Symbolic character), Ethnic stereotypes, Teapots, and Medical procedures & techniques
"Four bishops wearing mitres dance together, each holding the hand of the one opposite him so that four hands cross in the middle. They dance round the 'Quebec Bill' which lies on the floor. Other bishops, not wearing mitres, are seated in a semicircl...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
J. Baldwin
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Québec (Province).
