"Satire on the partiality of the king and of Newcastle's ministry for Hanover at the expense of Britain. The orchards of England have been stripped and boats loaded with apples are being rowed across the channel to Hanover where the king and his ministers are tending a single crab apple tree. In the foreground the horse of Hanover, now well-fed thanks to British support, produces "fine manure for the Crab Tree", in the form of coins, caught in his mitre by a bishop. In the distance, Bubb Doddington buries Britannia beside a church on which the weather vane is the Hanoverian horse to the delight of a passing French ship."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Epilogue to the recruiting serjeant
Description:
Title etched above image., Publisher Matthias Darly identified from address and date., Temporary local subject terms: Hanover -- Emblems: the white horse of Hanover -- Fruit: apples -- British Lion., Truman's notes about the print are shelved as: LWL Mss Group 1 File 16., Watermark: countermark I V., and Mounted to 34 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
To be had at the Acorn facing Hungerford Strand & facing Little Suffolk Street, Hedge Lane
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Dodington, George Bubb, Baron of Melcombe Regis, 1691-1762, and Winchilsea, Daniel Finch, Earl of, 1689-1769
