The powerfull recommendation, or, Sawney at St. ****** [graphic]

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Title: The powerfull recommendation, or, Sawney at St. ****** [graphic]
Alternative Title: Sawney at St. ******
Sawney at St. James's
Powerful recommendation
Published / Created: according to act, 1761.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold by all the printsellers and pamplett shops on this side the Tweed
Abstract: "Satire on Scots profiting from the influence of Lord Bute and his supposed relationship with Princess Augusta, showing a young Scotsman addressing the Princess with the support of a number of ladies, including Lady Mary Stuart, Lord Bute's daughter, who says, "Upon my Papa's Recommendation & mine your sure of Success"; a rebus below complains of the surprising Scottish achievements considering the recent rebellion of 1745."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched above image.
Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark.
Twenty lines of verse below image, in a form of rebus: Ye Br[i][tton]s who'd think in the [Time]s of re[bel][lion]? T[hat] Caledon's [child]ren wou'd ere [be] thought [well] on ...
Temporary local subject terms: Mary Stuart, Countess of Lonsdale.
Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Mounted to 37 x 26 cm.
Provenance: Peter Murray Hill, November 1964;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 31 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1761
Etchings England London 1761
Engravings England London 1761
Rebuses
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Lonsdale, Mary Lowther, Countess of, 1740-1824
Subjects: Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Lonsdale, Mary Lowther, Countess of, 1740-1824 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1761
England > London > 1761

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