publish'd accoding [sic] act of Parliament, Sepr. 2d 1762.
Call Number:
762.09.02.01.1+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satirical riposte to Hogarth's 'The Times Plate 1' (Paulson 211) contrasting particular elements of that print to suggest that Lord Bute is creating faction within the country while Pitt and his supporters attempt to calm the situation. St James's Palace is ablaze; flames issuing from the gate set fire to an inn sign of the globe lettered "New Lost Land" (a reference to the recent loss of Newfoundland). On the left, Bute, wearing a tartan night shirt, holding a large pair of bellows, runs away from the fire but encourages it by breaking wind; two other Scots, crouching, also break wind, one of them addressing the other as "Brother Small Wit" (i.e., Tobias Smollett); Henry Fox runs away from Bute's supporters crying, "D[am]n the Dogs how they stink I'll turn my tail on them". On the right, Pitt stands on a fire engine directing a jet of water on the fire (in contrast to Hogarth's print where he stands on stilts fanning the flames while a supporter of the king is the chief fire fighter); the pump is manned by the Dukes of Newcastle and Cumberland and sailors who parallel the prominent sailor in Hogarth's print. Cumberland complains that the "machine is sadly out of Order" (meaning government) to which Newcastle responds "Yes ever since you left it", referring to Cumberland's resignation from military command. The sailors allude to Pitt's letter of October 1761 to William Beckford in which he explains his resignation "in order not to remain responsible for measures which I was no longer allowed to guide" (published in the Annual Register, 1761, p.300); they compare Pitt as the "Master [who] Guides it well" with Bute whose action is a wind that "encreases the Flame" and "comes from a very foul quarter". Charles Churchill, in clerical dress, walks towards the Pitt's group carrying a bucket labelled "North Briton" and offering to "help without hope of a Pension", an allusion to payments made by the Crown both to Hogarth and to Pitt. In the background, to left, a group of men look on saying the "Squire" (the king) and his family are "safe on the other side" (implying they have joined the opponents of Lord Bute, which was not in fact the case); one man continues to encourage Bute, "Blow away my Lad they will expend all their Water soon". Etched verses below describe the scene in scurrilous terms suggesting that the fire began in "the Welch Ladys Bed Room", i.e., that of Princess Augusta, and call for quenching of the "Fire of Party."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull's house set in flames
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom., Three columns of verse below titie: Iohn Bulls hous in flames, to whom is this owing, / That's what we've to tell you. There look at them blowing / New lost land is done for, and all the worlds going ..., "Price 6d.", Temporary local subject terms: Buildings -- London: St. James's Street -- Newspapers: North Briton -- Naval uniforms: sailor's uniform -- Seven Years' War: reference to the loss of Newfoundland -- Signboards -- Fire-engines., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Saint James's Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Fires, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), Bellows, Flatulence, Fire fighting, and Sailors
Title from item., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., First state, without plate no. Cf. No. 3991 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Temporary local subject terms: Auctions: furniture auction -- Auctioneers -- Auctioneer's clerk -- Kitchen oeconomy, 1762 -- Fireplaces: kitchen fireplaces -- Utensils: kettle -- Utensils: spits -- Interiors: royal kitchen -- Sticks: wands -- Emblems: thistle (Scotland) -- Trades: cooks -- Clergy: chaplain., and Mounted to 32 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782
Title from item., Four columns of verse below image: Things are now at such a pass, that every fool must have his ass ..., Temporary local subject terms: Coalitions: France and Spain, 1762 -- Lawyers: barrister as an owl., and Mounted to 32 x 49 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record, inferred from other prints on Lord Bute's installation in 1762., Number '6' in title printed in reverse., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Witches" Macbethian witches -- Mythology: Medusa's head -- Literature: altered quotation from Macbeth by William Shakespeare, i.2.80 -- Secret influence -- Emblems: thistle for Scotland., Watermark: Pro patria on the right side of the sheet; countermark G R on the left., and Title written over in contemporary hand.
A broadside satirizing William Hogarth and his print "The Times plate 1" and a reply to Henry Howard's song "The Queen's Ass"; with an etching showing an ass with a human head representing Hogarth
Alternative Title:
The Time. Pl. 1st
Description:
Title from text etched at top of second plate., Two plates: the smaller on top with text "The times pl: 1st. 1762 Price 2s." and an image of an ass with the head of Hogarth, in profile as in the Gates of Calais. The second plate, following the caption title continues "An honest Man's the noblest work of God. Pope. The words by S.W. to the tune of [the] Ass in the Cahlet"; followed by eight stanzas of "A new song" in two columns; a ninth stanza centered below., "Price 6d.", and On page 292 in volume 3. Plate mark 6.4 x 6.6 at top, on sheet 27.3 x 19.3 cm.
A broadside satirizing William Hogarth and his print "The Times plate 1" and a reply to Henry Howard's song "The Queen's Ass"; with an etching showing an ass with a human head representing Hogarth
Alternative Title:
The Time. Pl. 1st
Description:
Title from text etched at top of second plate., Two plates: the smaller on top with text "The times pl: 1st. 1762 Price 2s." and an image of an ass with the head of Hogarth, in profile as in the Gates of Calais. The second plate, following the caption title continues "An honest Man's the noblest work of God. Pope. The words by S.W. to the tune of [the] Ass in the Cahlet"; followed by eight stanzas of "A new song" in two columns; a ninth stanza centered below., and "Price 6d."
In an almost empty kitchen one of two fireplaces is not in use and holds a vase of flowers. Above it hangs a ham, a fish and a fish head, and a flitch of bacon. In the foreground, an elegant gentleman, Lord Talbot, appointed Steward of the Household in March 1761, reproves the cook, saying "Why such waste." With his right hand he is pointing to a man kneeling before him, a small emaciated dog beside him. The obese cook replies, "I must quit the service." Behind him, a servant sits at a large empty table, head in hand, saying, "Times are altered." Another servant behind the cook turns to leave the room, saying, "I shall have an to mysel." Under the table lie two large, empty baskets
Alternative Title:
Economy
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from item., Publication date and place from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Seven Years War -- Peace negotiations with France, 1762 -- Dutchmen -- Allusion to Dutch neutrality -- Signs: signboards -- Buildings: inns -- Soldiers: veterans., and Watermark: unidentified watermark (Pro patria?).
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title from item., Plate numbered '22' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. ... [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Four stanzas of verse in two columns below title: Each fat lugged loon which dwells in this town, I beg you'll give up yr dominions ..., Temporary local subject terms: Apes -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Emblems: olive branch -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Trades: cobbler -- Fox -- Goose -- Scots., and Mounted to 32 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
