The Congress, or, A device to lower the land-tax : to the tune of Doodle, doodle, do, &c.

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Title: The Congress, or, A device to lower the land-tax : to the tune of Doodle, doodle, do, &c.
Alternative Title: Device to lower the land tax
Published / Created: Publish'd according to act of Parliamt. [August 1762]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for the author and sold by all the printsellers in London and Westminster
Abstract: A letterpress broadside with verses of a song in two columns satirizing the Bute administration's overtures for peace with France, suggesting that making peace and handing English conquests to France are motivated by the Duke of Bedford's personal interest to escape paying the Land Tax to support the war. With an etching at top showing Lord Bute on the left offering a scroll to two Frenchmen who are holding the British lion on a chain. One holds a flag with a large jack-boot, the emblem of Lord Bute. In the lower left a tomb decorated with a skull and crossbones and the words "British glory obit 1762".
Description: Caption title in letterpress.
Publication date from Stephens.
"Price sixpence."
Etching at top of sheet: plate mark 18.6 x 19.2 cm. Imprint etched in lower left: Publish'd according to act of Parliamt.
Six stanzas of song in two columns: Here you may see the happy congress, all now is done with such a bon grace ...
Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : 37 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Humor
Broadsides Great Britain 1762
Songs England 1762
Satires (Visual works) England 1762
Etchings England London 1762
Watermarks (Paper) I V.
Material: 1 etching ;
Subject (Name): Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic): Seven Years' War, 1756-1763
Skull & crossbones
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Subjects: Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 > Humor
Treaty of Paris (1763 February 10)
Skull & crossbones
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Great Britain > 1762
England > 1762
England > London > 1762
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