The curtain [graphic]

Description

Title: The curtain [graphic]
Creator: Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created: [1761]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Satire on the Scots and on the supposed relationship between Lord Bute and Princess Augusta, showing on the left a plaid curtain behind which the couple are seen dancing when the print is held to the light; on the right a Scottish bag-piper plays "Scotch Vagary for the German Flute or Bagpipe" while two gentleman note that he is "sure of preferment"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched above image.
Printmaker and publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
The mounting sheet contains figures of the Princess of Wales and Lord Bute that can be seen behind the curtain when the print is viewed against a source of light.
Temporary local subject terms: Preferment -- Allusion to David Rizzio, d. 1566.
Watermark: unidentified watermark.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Bowditch's note on mounting sheet: Truman Sale 1906.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 21 x 33 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Transparent prints
Transparencies
Satires (Visual works) England 1761
Etchings England London 1760-1770
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subjects: Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1761
England > London > 1760-1770

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