Gisbal triumphant a new song to the tune of Chevy Chace. [graphic]

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Description

Title
Gisbal triumphant a new song to the tune of Chevy Chace. [graphic]
Published / Created
[1763]
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

"A broadside satirising the dominance of Lord Bute after the Treaty of Paris; with an etching showing the figure of Britannia, her shield and spear lying on the ground, carrying a yoke with two buckets; on the yoke stands Lord Bute wearing tartan, holds a liberty cap and a penant labelled "Magna Charta" on a staff in one hand and in the other the Union flag below the French one; on either side people look on, including a sailor and a lady in tears. Engraved inscriptions, title and verses in two columns decrying Bute, with a reminder of Robert Walpole's Excise Bill of 1733 as an implied parallel to Bute's Cider Tax."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state

Description
Title from song engraved below image.
Variant state, lacking imprint statement, of no. 4011 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Date from that assigned to the variant state in the British Museum catalogue.
Ten numbered verses etched below image beginning: 1. Of all the nobles in the land, Great Gisbal bears the sway. All things are by his orders done, and none dare disobey ...
Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: reference to cider tax -- Yoke -- Containers: pails -- Emblems: staff and cap of liberty -- Flags: Union Jack -- Flags: French ensign.
Mounted to 34 x 32 cm.
Provenance
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Bowditch's note on mounting sheet: Truman Sale 1906.
Extent
1 print : sheet 34 x 21 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
763.03.00.02

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1763
Etchings England London 1763
Material
etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic)
Britannia (Symbolic character)
Flags
British
Yokes
Liberty cap
Subjects
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Britannia (Symbolic character)
Flags > British
Yokes
Liberty cap
England > 1763
England > London > 1763

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8458578
Object ID (OID)
10713158

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