Places of profit [graphic].

"Satire on alleged political corruption during the premiership of Lord Bute: copy in reverse of one compartment of "Places (being a Sequel to the Posts) a Political Pasquinade (see British Museum registration number 1868,0808.4321): Lord Sandwich, holding his cricket bat, presides over the Admiralty board whose members are asleep in their chairs; two sailors are turned away at the Pay Office while Henry Fox converses with venal politicians; a gentleman in a long wig presides over the Treasury board consisting of five Scots seated at a table covered with empty money bags, an empty chest lying on the floor; seven recipients of government pensions present themselves, among them 'M.', Arthur Murphy (?), 'Orator S', Tobias Smollett, 'H', William Hogarth at his easel wearing a fool's cap, his dog at his feet, 'P.W.', Paul Whitehead, deputy wardrobe keeper to the king, standing beside a coat on a stand"--British Museum onlne catalogue