"Satire on Lord Bute, his patronage of Scots in London and his alleged relationship with Princess Augusta. Bute stands in the centre, holding his staff suggestively and encouraging Scots ('Hebronites') who are shown crossing the River Jordan in waggons and on foot, eating porridge and 'sowens' (a porridge-like food enjoyed in Scotland ); in the foreground a barefoot Scot carries a child in a pouch and leads another by the hand, another carries a broadsword and target, and 'Jubal' plays the bagpipes while an English waggon-driver complains that his horses had been killed by being overloaded. Three politicians, Pitt, Temple and Newcastle each claiming that they will retire from politics sit at a table on which lies a copy of the anti-Bute newspaper, the Monitor; the British lion sleeps and a fox (Henry Fox) whispers in its ear that it should sleep on. On the right, Princess Augusta and her ladies sit under a canopy surmounted by a French cock and turn toward Bute admiring his figure; Britannia weeps, crying "Degenerate Daughteres, I disown ye all"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Importation of the Hebronites
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four columns of verse below title: To suite the times and raise a laugh, the subject is an upright staff ..., Temporary local subject terms: Preferments: Lord Bute's preferment -- Orders: Garter ribbon and star -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- British Lion -- Newspapers: The Monitor -- Bible: River Jordan -- Bible: Hills of Hebron -- Bible: Land of Israel -- Literature: Ossian -- Scots -- Vehicles: waggons., Watermark: Fleur-de-lys., and Mounted to 32 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779
