Sawney discover'd, or, The Scotch intruders 1760 [graphic].

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Title: Sawney discover'd, or, The Scotch intruders 1760 [graphic].
Alternative Title: Scotch intruders 1760
Creator: Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created: [1761]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: "Satire on the Scots and on the supposed relationship between Lord Bute and Princess Augusta, showing on the right a curtain decroated with thistles and the Stuart royal motto "Nemo me impune lacessit" behind which the couple are seen fondling each other in company of a short man or boy and another man (identified as "B-T-FI"), both evidently Scots; five Scotsmen and a Scottish woman stand to the left hoping for posts, two of them refer to connections with France."--British Museum online catalogue.
Title etched below image.
Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
The top sheet contains the figures of the Princess of Wales, Lord Bute, and two others, that can be seen behind the screen when the print is viewed against a source of light.
Mounted.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 21 x 32 cm
Edition: [1st state].
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Transparent prints
Transparencies
Satires (Visual works) England 1761
Etchings England London 1761
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
Queensberry, William Douglas, Duke of, 1725-1810
Subjects: Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771 > Caricatures and cartoons
Queensberry, William Douglas, Duke of, 1725-1810 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1761
England > London > 1761

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