Title from item., Engraved broadside poem illustrated with etching at top of sheet., Ten stanzas of song in two columns, divided with ornamental border, below title: My song, srs. arouse, and pardon my Muse ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Price following imprint: Price 6d., Temporary local subject terms: Songs: 'Come let us prepare we brothers that we are' -- Songs: 'Alley croaker' -- Songs: 'Ask if yon Damask rose be sweet' -- Musical instruments: harpsichod., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Title in letter press above image., Publication date based on the date of Lord Bute's appointment in 1762., Two columns of text, separated with vertical ornamental border, below plate: Explanation., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Coats of arms -- Weapons: guns -- Dress: wooden shoes -- Emblems: thistle -- Executioner's axe -- Scots -- Protestants: reference to protestants -- Mottoes: Ense recidendum me pars sincera trabatur immedicabile vulnus.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., and Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811
Subject (Topic):
Firearms, Gallows, Lawyers, Military uniforms, British, and Shackles
Letterpress broadside poem illustrated with etching at top of sheet., Etching also entitled: The K---s ass, i.e., The Kings ass. Plate mark 8.7 x 6.5 cm., Publication date from Stephens., Following imprint: Price six-pence., One line of text below imprint: N.B. This ass has entered Stationer's Hall, and whoever copies him will be prosecuted., Nine stanzas of song below title: Attend my good people, I'll sing you a song, and if not very good -- why it shall not be long ..., Temporary local subject terms: Orders: Order of the Garter (ribbon and star) -- Influence: Lord Bute's influence on George III., Printed on laid paper ; mounted to 34 x 44 cm., and Watermark: royal cipher with initials GR below.
"Satire on Lord Bute in the form of a reply to Henry Howard's bawdy ballad, "The Queen's Ass" (BM Satires 3870): the zebra kicks Howard, who has fallen to the ground, behind him a group of men comprising John Fielding, the three Cherokee chiefs who visited London in 1762, and another who may be identified as the man referred to in the verse below as "M-re [who] sally'd forth the fair Sex to relieve"; on the right, Bute, dressed in tartan and wearing a boot, riding a tamed British Lion; a Jewish stockbroker in the stocks; and George Whitfield looking into a mirror which reflects the image of an ass. In the background Charles Churchill, wielding a stick, chases off Bute's supporters, the journalists Arthur Murphy and Tobias Smollett, who raise their hands in surprise. Engraved inscriptions, title and verses in two columns by "Fartinando", to be sung to the tune of "The Ass in the Chaplet"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Answer to Harry Howard's ass
Description:
Caption title below etching., Engraved broadside poem illustrated with etching at top of sheet (late mark 30.1 x 20 cm). Etching signed: J. Jones delin et sculpt., Harry H----d's = Henry Howard., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., The lion bears some resemblance to those designed by Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale for the Ladies Amusement (first published by Sayer in 1760), especially plate 108, and was perhaps copied from his work. Cf. British Museum online catalogue., Ten stanzas of verse below title: Permit me good people (a whimsical bard) and snarl not [the] critical class ..., and Mounted to 35 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament by J. Williams, next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Whitefield, George, 1714-1770, Fielding, John, Sir, 1721-1780, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
Subject (Topic):
Cherokee Indians, Jews, Clergy, England, National emblems, British, Stocks (Punishment), and Zebras
Engraved broadside poem illustrated with etching at top of sheet., Later state, with the collar of thistles and fleurs-de-lis suspended from the jack boot surmounting a pole dividing the stanzas of the song., Eight stanzas of verse in two columns below title, divided with a decorated pole: Our country Old England apperas very ill. O, sick, sick at heart. Since she took a Scotch pill ..., Temporary local subject terms: Outdoor stage: mountebank's stage -- Treaties: Treaty of Paris, 1763: reference to British territorial concessions-- Arms: arms of the City of London -- Emblems: spear and cap of Liberty -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Medical: vomiting -- Fleur-de-lis -- Personifications: France as an ape -- Shields: Britannia's shield with Scotch thistle and Cross of St. Andrew's -- Emblems: Scotch thistle -- Quacks -- Medical: clyster pipe -- Dutchmen -- Spaniards., and Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Publishd according to act of Parliament by Mary Darley in Little Riders Court, Leicester feilds [sic]
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Septr. 15, 1762.
Call Number:
762.09.15.01.1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
"A broadside satirising Lord Bute's mission to Paris to arrange peace with France, disputed by two patrons of the fictitious "Bedford Coffee-House"; with an etching showing the interior of a coffee-house, two gentlemen seated at a table, on the table various newspapers and a tray with a hot chocolate pot, one gentleman pouring liquid from the cup into the saucer; with engraved inscriptions, speech bubbles, and with letterpress title and verses in two columns, and with one vertical segment of type ornament"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Letterpress broadside song, illustrated with etching at top of sheet (plate mark 155 x 200 mm)., A song with nine stanzas in two columns separated with decorative border: Good people attend (if you can but spare time), to a grumblig poet, who grumbles in rhyme ..., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Sold by W. Tringham, engraver in Castle Alley, Royal Exchange, and at the print shop under St. Dunstan's Church ; and by all the print and pamphlet shops
Title from letterpress text below image., Broadside song illustrated with an engraving entitled: An honourable pea-ce, or a vigourous war., Below the text of the song: Sold by the author, opposite of the Union Coffee-House, in the Strand, near Temple-Bar, and by other print and pamphlet-sellers, &c., Temporary local subject terms: Old Bedford Head -- Emblems: Sawney McBoot for Lord Bute -- Food: mess of soup -- Peas porridge -- Attic salt -- Hollanders -- The Union -- French money -- English will., and Mounted to 43 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliamt
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Subject (Topic):
Treaty of Paris, Coffeehouses, Interiors, Kitchens, Taverns (Inns), and Signs (Notices)
