Publish'd according to act of Parliamt. [August 1762]
Call Number:
762.09.09.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A letterpress broadside with verses of a song in two columns satirizing the Bute administration's overtures for peace with France, suggesting that making peace and handing English conquests to France are motivated by the Duke of Bedford's personal interest to escape paying the Land Tax to support the war. With an etching at top showing Lord Bute on the left offering a scroll to two Frenchmen who are holding the British lion on a chain. One holds a flag with a large jack-boot, the emblem of Lord Bute. In the lower left a tomb decorated with a skull and crossbones and the words "British glory obit 1762".
Alternative Title:
Device to lower the land tax
Description:
Caption title in letterpress., Publication date from Stephens., "Price sixpence.", Etching at top of sheet: plate mark 18.6 x 19.2 cm. Imprint etched in lower left: Publish'd according to act of Parliamt., Six stanzas of song in two columns: Here you may see the happy congress, all now is done with such a bon grace ..., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Publisher:
Printed for the author and sold by all the printsellers in London and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Skull & crossbones, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Publish'd according to act of Parliamt. [August 1762]
Call Number:
762.09.09.01+ Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A letterpress broadside with verses of a song in two columns satirizing the Bute administration's overtures for peace with France, suggesting that making peace and handing English conquests to France are motivated by the Duke of Bedford's personal interest to escape paying the Land Tax to support the war. With an etching at top showing Lord Bute on the left offering a scroll to two Frenchmen who are holding the British lion on a chain. One holds a flag with a large jack-boot, the emblem of Lord Bute. In the lower left a tomb decorated with a skull and crossbones and the words "British glory obit 1762".
Alternative Title:
Device to lower the land tax
Description:
Caption title in letterpress., Publication date from Stephens., "Price sixpence.", Etching at top of sheet: plate mark 18.6 x 19.2 cm. Imprint etched in lower left: Publish'd according to act of Parliamt., Six stanzas of song in two columns: Here you may see the happy congress, all now is done with such a bon grace ..., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Printed for the author and sold by all the printsellers in London and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Skull & crossbones, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
