The roasted exciseman, or, The Jack Boots exit [graphic].

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Title: The roasted exciseman, or, The Jack Boots exit [graphic].
Alternative Title: Jack Boots exit
Contributor: Sumpter, Edward, active 1763-1787, publisher.
Published / Created: [1763]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: E. Sumpter
Description: Title from caption etched below image.
Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763.
Reduced copy, without price, of no. 4045 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Temporary local subject terms: Executions: hanging -- Gallows -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Flags: Magna Charta -- Slogans: Liberty, property and no excise -- Containers: barrel -- Taxes: tax on cider -- Emblems: cap and staff of liberty -- Fuel: Florida turf -- Effigies: effigy of Lord Bute as exciseman -- Naval uniforms: sailor's uniform -- Coffee-houses: reference to Cocoa Tree coffee-house.
Mounted to 33 x 43 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 9.1 x 11.6 cm, on sheet 12 x 19 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1763
Etchings England London 1763
Book illustrations
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subjects: William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1763
England > London > 1763

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