A short man on the left stands in profile, chapeau bras, pointing towards a very large man approaching him from the right
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Plate numbered '6' in lower right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress, ca. 1763? -- Wigs: bag wigs., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials I C H below.
Title from caption etched above image., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: village cottage -- Press gangs -- Containers: tub -- Containers: barrel -- Children -- Furniture: cradle -- Hearth -- Trades: butcher -- Buildings: church., and Mounted to 34 x 46 cm.
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1763?]
Call Number:
763.00.00.126
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man stands full length facing the viewer wearing a hat and large coat, leaning on a walking stick in his right hand. He has a sheaf of papers over his left forearm with the words "Peace French & Spanish terms-". A speech balloon from his mouth reads, "If you dont care we'l [...] you all by St. Andre."
Description:
Title etched below image., "O'Garth" is a pseudonym for the Honorable George Townshend. See British Museum catalogue no. 2847., Publication date inferred from that of the Treaty of Paris to which this print refers., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792. and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Tho' crest-fallen at present the Spanairds [sic] and France, confess they are beaten by England stout lance ..., Temporary local subject terms: Fleets -- Gallows -- French -- Spaniards., and Window mounted to 24 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Sc---h hobby horses, Scotch hobby horses, and Dukes exchanged
Description:
Title from item., Thirty-two lines of verse in four columns below image: Come and listen to my ditty de song de tune is very pretty ..., Variant state, with verse below image, of No. 4001 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Treaties: Treaty of Utrecht -- Castle: Dover Castle -- Emblems: boot as Lord Bute -- Emblems: thistle -- Animals: fox -- Devil -- Balances -- Hobby horses -- Birds: hawk -- Bribery -- Military uniforms: sentry -- Buildings: church steeple -- Wars: galeons representing war with Spain, 1762 -- Calais -- Songs -- Allusion to James Wolfe, 1727-1759., Watermark: Vryheyt., and Mounted to 33 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Hawke, Edward Hawke, Baron, 1705-1781, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Bussy, François de, 1699-1780
Title from text in image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Four lines of text below title, within design: Erected by the voluntary subscription of Englishmen to perpetual memmory [sic] of Gisbal, a northern patriot ..., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : E. Sumpter, 1763., Temporary local subject terms: Monuments: Emblems: boot as Lord Bute -- Emblems: thistle -- Emblems: bagpipes -- Animals: Lord Holland as fox -- Birds: the Duke of Bedford as duck -- Emblems: staff and cap of liberty -- Emblems: scales of justice -- Mouth of Hell., and Mounted to 34 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774 and Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771
"A broadside satirising the dominance of Lord Bute after the Treaty of Paris; with an etching showing the figure of Britannia, her shield and spear lying on the ground, carrying a yoke with two buckets; on the yoke stands Lord Bute wearing tartan, holds a liberty cap and a penant labelled "Magna Charta" on a staff in one hand and in the other the Union flag below the French one; on either side people look on, including a sailor and a lady in tears. Engraved inscriptions, title and verses in two columns decrying Bute, with a reminder of Robert Walpole's Excise Bill of 1733 as an implied parallel to Bute's Cider Tax."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title from song engraved below image., Variant state, lacking imprint statement, of no. 4011 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Date from that assigned to the variant state in the British Museum catalogue., Ten numbered verses etched below image beginning: 1. Of all the nobles in the land, Great Gisbal bears the sway. All things are by his orders done, and none dare disobey ..., Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: reference to cider tax -- Yoke -- Containers: pails -- Emblems: staff and cap of liberty -- Flags: Union Jack -- Flags: French ensign., and Mounted to 34 x 32 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Flags, British, Yokes, and Liberty cap
Title and imprint from from British Museum catalogue., Description based on imperfect impression; text lacking, image only., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Temporary local subject terms: London: Tyburn -- Executions: procession to Tyburn -- Gibbet -- Reference to the Treaty of Paris, 1763 -- Reference to cider tax -- Scots -- Emblems: dove with an olive branch., and Mounted to 31 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Burd, in the Temple-Exchange Passage, Fleet-Street; and sold by all printsellers, &c in London and Westminster
A broadside satirising the Peace Treaty with France, and the involvements of Lord Bute, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Lord Carteret, and William Pitt; with an etching showing four men sitting at a table with a punch bowl and candlesticks, drinking and smoking pipes; in the background four men standing. The song includes references to Sawney, Taffey, Paddy, and Will English, Scotch, Welsh, Irish, and English characters
Description:
Caption title in letterpress, below image, Imprint from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and below letterpress, with loss of imprint., Below title: Adapted to proper tunes in the English, Irish, Welch and Scotch taste, inscribed to all true lovers of Old England., and Two columns of verse below title, comprising the text of the song, divided by a vertical line of ornamental floral type: "Recitative. 'Twas on that memorable Day, When thro' the streets, with loud Huzza! ...
Publisher:
Printed for J. Williams, next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet-Street ...
Subject (Name):
Williams-Wynn, Watkin, Sir, 1692-1749., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778.
Title etched above image., Date of publication inferred from date of Lord Bute's resignation., Based on no. 4032 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4?, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Games: bob-cherry -- Oeconomy -- Offices: Clerk of the Pells., and Watermark: 1748.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Holland, Stephen Fox, Baron, 1745-1774, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Fox, Henry Edward, 1755-1811, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Grenville, George, 1712-1770