"A sequel to British Museum Satires No. 3856 showing Scots paying court to Lord Bute expecting advancement. A crowd of grotesquely caricatured and scrawny Scots plead before Bute seeking posts; Bute, wearing a huge feather in his cap, promises "My Pow...
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Title etched above image.
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Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
"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 waggon...
Alternative Title:
Importation of the Hebronites
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Title etched below image.
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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
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1720-1764, Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1739-1767, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Reduced copy, from "The mountebank" (British Museum catalogue no. 3854), with out the inscriptions on the papers. The charletan's speech ends with : .. See here my lads heres the Golden Lozenges which will cure ye all make ye hauld up yr. heads and tu...
Alternative Title:
Scotch quack
Description:
Title etched below image; expanded title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
Subject (Topic):
Crowds, Ethnic stereotypes, Hats, National emblems, Scottish, Welsh, Quacks, and Swindlers
A crowd of people, most wearing Scotch plaid, stand before a mountebank's stage, holding out their hands to the charlatan, a caricature of Lord Bute who holds bags of money. Behind him on the floor of the stage is a chest filled with more bags of mone...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
Subject (Topic):
Political corruption, Patronage, Political, Crowds, Fools & jesters, and Quacks
