"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
Description:
Title from caption etched at top of image., Reduced and reversed copy of The political cramers, or, Political quacks. See Stephens 3923., Two columns of verse below image: Britania [sic] tormented wth sic] discord & strife, And almost in danger of loosing her life ..., Plate numbered '15' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison : consisting of the most humorous satirical political prints, for the year 1762. ... [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller , [1763]., and Mounted to 28 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
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 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
