Title from item., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., A reduced and reversed copy, without plate number, of no. 4048 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: Underworld -- Charon -- Cerberus -- River Styx -- Demons -- Snakes., and Mounted to 30 x 40 cm.
Title from caption etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three columns of verse below image: News, news, Britons, news is arriv'd by this packet, just brought by a devil in flame colour'd jacket ..., Temporary local subject terms: Resignations: Lord Bute's resignation, April 1763 -- Excise: Cyder Act -- Mythology: Underworld -- Charon -- Cerberus -- River Styx -- Furies -- Animals: reptiles -- Literature: reference to Sejanus by Ben Jonson, 1572-1637., and Mounted to 27 x 40 cm., mounted again to 38 x 56 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530, Brühl, Heinrich, Graf von, 1700-1763, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
"Satire on Lord Bute and his political patronage. A view of a large garden with a tree at its centre at the top of which sits Bute holding two baskets of "golden pippins"; a devil with two serpentine legs sits on a low branch to right, excreting gold coins into the arms of a man with a fox's head (Henry Fox); to left, Princess Augusta climbs a ladder resting against the tree and reaches out to take an apple from the French ambassador, the duc de Nivernois, who sits beside the devil. Cumberland, wielding a large axe, is in the process of chopping down the tree saying "I'll cut you up root and branch". A group of Scots stand behind the tree waiting for fruits to fall, another stoops at the foot of the ladder to pick up an apple and glance up the princess's skirts; two prosperous gentlemen stand to the side holding baskets of fruit. A winged figure of Father Time flies towards the tree from the left while, on the right, a be-wigged devil (Mansfield) flies away squirting liquid from a clyster at a Charles Churchill who sits on the garden wall waving a stick; Temple and Newcastle climb over the wall into the garden and Pitt holding a flaming sword leaps down to attack a group of Scots. On the left of the scene, a cock standing on a dunghill is approached by a monkey (the Duke of Bedford, ambassador to Paris) carrying a paper lettered, "Articles of Agreement between John Bull & Lewis Gallus". Beyond, two further Scots carry off a bulging sack and the Union Flag. In the foreground, to left, is a barking British mastiff, and to right a sorrowful lion sits in shadow."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Scotch paradise and View of the Buteifull garden of Edenburg
Description:
Title from item., Title etched above image., The 'i' in Buteiful is an image of an 'eye', a rebus. "Eden" in Edenburg in all capitals., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Sold at Sumpters political prints warehouse, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Subject (Topic):
Apple trees, Devil, Flags, Ladders, Lions, National emblems, French, British, Scottish, Paradise, and Roosters
"A complicated and fantastic design. The title implies the annual election of East India directors on the second Wednesday in April (11 Apr. in 1827). The Directors, twenty with portrait heads, with one or two shadowy heads behind, have wolves' paws, and wear, below their shoulders, sheeps' fleeces inscribed Golden Fleece or Fleece. In the middle sit the Chairman and Deputy Chairman, two profiles joined Janus-like. One (Lindsay, the Deputy), in profile to the left, says: Adsum qui feci in me convertite ferrum [sic]. The other (Sir G. Robinson, the Chairman), says: Nostrum sex sumus, discedentes lucemus et aucto splendore resurgemus [he is one of the six retiring Directors, to be re-elected after a year]. Before him are a book, Stamp Office Ledger. This could a tale unfold; a print of a man carrying a globe on his back (he was Chairman of the Globe Insurance Office), and papers: Joint Stock Companies and Morning Paper. In another presidential chair (right), at right angles to the Directors, sits a fierce-looking man with bull's horns holding a scourge inscribed The Board of Controul [showing he is Wynn, President of the Board]; he says: These wolves in sheeps cloathing must not take all the prey, give us John Bulls share. Facing him from the extreme left is a man at a slightly lower desk, who says: We care not a jot for the court of Proprietors. In the foreground are the Proprietors, grouped in three categories of animals. A pack of large dogs, 'the requisitionary pack', with human (portrait) heads, runs forward from the right, where there are circular tiers of benches (as used by the Proprietors on Court Days). The foremost is Cato, saying, Chairman you are all out of order, as to your lawyers I put them all at defiance. At his feet are papers: He gave him a Roland for his Oliver; A free Press, and Universal Knowledge. Next is Cæsar, saying, We are allowed in Parliament to ask questions Nemo nos impune lassessit [sic]. Argus [? Hume], with National reform in Church and State at his feet, asks: I am my own dog whose are you?. Cerberus answers: I am the House Dog but to your pack Adieu [perhaps James Rivett Carnac, Director-elect in place of Bosanquet]. Jason [? Capt. W. Maxfield], leaping over a paper inscribed The Bombay Marines Lamentations over their unmerited sufferings, says: I care not a fig for your majorities while truth, reason, and justice are on my side. Mad Tom says: One gymnastic leap would place me within the bar before you could say Jack Robinson. The last dog, P. Pry [see BM Satires 15138], its head obscured, barks at Wynn: Bow, Wow wow! Two other dogs with human heads are indicated, and there are also an obscure couple of normal dogs, saying, Pointers have good noses & capital eyes for fat bones. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View of the beautiful garden of Edinburgh
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Reduced copy, without plate number, of no. 4006 ("Scotch paradice") in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Mounted to 31 x 46 cm with Bowditch's manuscript annotations on the mount.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Subject (Topic):
Apple trees, Devil, Flags, Ladders, Lions, National emblems, French, British, Scottish, Paradise, and Roosters
A cross-looking man stands looking right, holding his walking stick and hat
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Plate numbered '3' 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., Title is a quotation from Alessandro nell'Indie by Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials ICH.
Title etched above image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison : consisting of the most humorous satirical political prints, for the year 1762. ... [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller in Fleet Street, and Mr. Harvest, printseller in Heming's-Row St. Martin's Lane, [1763]., Twelve lines of verse in two columns etched above image and below title: Monarchs, 'tis true, should clain [sic] the storms of war, nor urge the rage of victory too far ..., Plate numbered '28' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Peace negotiations: peace with France, 1762 -- Allusion to Havana -- Treaty of Paris: British territorial concessions -- British Lion -- Mythology: allusion to Nike., and Mounted to 31 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Britannia (Symbolic character), and Olive branches
Title etched above image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Four columns of verse below image: [To please] our friends wth [sic] something new, we present them with a view ..., Plate numbered '17' in upper right corner., Copy of no. 3856 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Scots -- Buildings -- Signboards: jack boot -- Emblems: jack boot (Lord Bute)., and Mounted to 33 x 44 cm.
Caledonians arival in Moneyland and Caledonians arrival in Moneyland
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Four columns of verse below image: The voyage ore [sic], the Northern band, are now arriv'd in Money Land ..., Plate numbered '18' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Scots -- James Stuart-Mackenzie., and Mounted to 32 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title from item., Design for this print attributed to Yarbury. See British Museum online catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Bush(?), fi. 1763 -- Morton(?), fl. 1763 -- Laurence, fl. 1763 -- John Saunders, 6th Bt. Sebright , 1725-1794 -- Allusion to Richard Nash, 1674-1761 -- Abel Moysey, 1743-1831 -- Cooper, fl. 1763 -- Lewis Clutterbuck, d. 1776 -- Chapman, d. 1781(?) -- Ford, fl. 1763 -- Walter Wiltshire, fl. 1763 -- Spurrier, fl. 1763 -- Attwood, fl. 1763 -- Axford, fl. 1763 -- Crook, fl. 1763 -- Dallamore, fl. 1763 -- Corporation of Bath -- Literature: allusion to Life of Richard Nash of Bath, Esquire, by Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-1774 -- Literature: quotation from Henry IV, pt. 1, ii.4.153, by William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 -- Addresses: Bath citizens' address, May 28, 1763 -- Addresses: quotation from Allen's address, The gentleman's magazine, v. 33, p. 376-7, August 1763 -- Bath: Prior Park -- Inns: allusion to Greyhound Inn, Bath -- Magna Charta., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Allen, Ralph, 1694-1764, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Leake, James, -1764, Ligonier, John, 1680-1770, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Warburton, William, 1698-1779
Subject (Topic):
Clerks, Mayors, Medical equipment & supplies, Municipal officials, Occupations, Physicians, and Town criers
Title from caption etched below image., Etched above image: Frontispiece., Frontispiece from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Earlier state, without plate number. Cf. No. 4149 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Dragons -- Personifications: Justice -- Emblems: scales of justice: cap of liberty vs. Scotch bonnet -- Personifications: Peace -- Emblems: palm leaf -- Syrens: with Hydra's heads as tail -- Jewels -- Crowns -- Reference to Lord Bute., and Mounted to 28 x 38 cm.
