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.
Following imprint: Price six pence., Letterpress broadside poem with an etching at top of sheet (plate mark 11.7 x 17.7 cm.)., Ten stanzas of a song printed in two columns separated with a decorative border: Ye patriots of Albion, vouchsafe your attention, to a wonderful tale I shall presently mention ..., A song - "Ye patriots of Albion, vouchsafe your attention"., On J. Stuart 3d Earl of Bute's investiture with the Order of the Garter., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Windsor, Chapter House -- Orders: Order of the Garter -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Pictures amplifying subject., and Watermark: Vryheyt.
Publisher:
Sold by the printsellers of London and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
"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
Title and publication date from from British Museum catalogue., Letterpress broadside poem with an etching at top of sheet (plate mark 11.2 x 14.9 cm.)., Below imprint: Price six-pence., and Eight stanzas of a song in two columns separated with a decorative border: Since folly in England for wisdom can pass, and th' Apollo of Grub Street will shew himself ass ...
Publisher:
Printed for T. Ewart opposite Northumberland Street, Strand, and sold at all the print and pamphlet sellers