An etching from a broadside satirising Lord Bute, his Cider Excise scheme, and the Peace Treaty of Paris (1762), showing a podium with King George III seated on a throne, in front of him a group of men (aldermen) delivering a petition; on the right Lord Bute, dressed in tartan; with engraved speech bubbles and inscriptions, and with letterpress title and verses in one column
Alternative Title:
Sawney's oeconomy and Sawney's economy
Description:
Title supplied from letterpress broadside. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Cf. No. 4009 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., and Mounted to 34 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
"Frontispiece to John Clubbe, 'Physiognomy'; being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan...' (London, 1763); scene outside an inn with the sign of 'The Weighing House', with nine men being assessed along a scale of gravity to levity; at right a man by the inn door operates a pulley to raise a magnet from the crossbeam of the inn sign; the men are balanced in a semi-circle from 'A', 'absolute Gravity', standing on his head, to 'I', 'absolute Levity or Stark Fool', in the middle of the air just beneath the magnet; at the centre, horizontally balanced and with nonchalant expression, is E, 'good Sence'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Weighing house
Description:
Title, date, artist, printmaker and publication information from Paulson., The degree of Hogarth's involvement in the design is unknown (see Paulson for discussion). Clubbe dedicated the 'Physiognomy' to Hogarth, and the author's son claimed that Hogarth had drawn at least the faces, but that perhaps the rest of the design was by Joshua Kirby, draughtsman and writer on perspective and a mutual friend to Hogarth and Clubbe. The attribution of the engraving to Luke Sullivan is as early as Nichols and Steevens' 'The Genuine Works of William Hogarth' (1808) vol. 1, p. 373., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 199 in volume 2.
A gentleman and lady rush into a room in alarm at the sight of their son sprawled on the ground, having fallen from his rocking-horse
Alternative Title:
Little captain's fall
Description:
Title from item., Description based on imperfect copy; sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom resulting in loss of all letterpress text., and Cf. No. 4047 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Title from the broadside edition with verses., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Another state. Cf. No. 4040 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedroom -- Furniture: bed with canopy -- Tripod table -- Trades: quacks -- Medicines: 'Bardana' for gout, 'Waterdock', 'Balsam of honey' -- Diseases: scurvy -- Invalids -- Devil -- Literature: allusion to Macbeth by William Shakespeare., and Mounted to 31 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Title from the print of which this plate is a copy. See Stephens., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Reduced copy, without title and verse, of No. 3817 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: London: Cheapside -- Vehicles: chariot -- Slang: "bruisers," i.e., prizefighters, and Mounted to 32 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, and Beckford, William, 1709-1770
An etching that appeared at the head of a broadside with the title 'Rhe Scotch yoke, or, English resentment' and nine verses in letterpress below; a satire on Lord Bute, his Excise scheme and the Treaty of Paris (1762). The image shows Lord Bute, dressed in tartan, seated on top of a pole on a pyre, holding two documents one labeled "Peace" and the other "Excise upon Cyder"; surrounded by a group a cheering people; with engraved speech bubbles
Alternative Title:
English resentment
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue. and With Bowditch's annotaions on mount: 33.2 x 45.2 cm.
An etching that appeared at the head of a broadside with the title 'Rhe Scotch yoke, or, English resentment' and nine verses in letterpress below; a satire on Lord Bute, his Excise scheme and the Treaty of Paris (1762). The image shows Lord Bute, dressed in tartan, seated on top of a pole on a pyre, holding two documents one labeled "Peace" and the other "Excise upon Cyder"; surrounded by a group a cheering people; with engraved speech bubbles
Alternative Title:
English resentment
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue. and On page 292 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 14.9 x 19.2 cm.
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
Title from letterpress broadside with which this plate is associated. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Later state of the left side plate. Cf. No. 4013 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Corporations: Corporation of London -- Laws and statutes: cider act, 1763 -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of Lord Bute -- Excisemen -- Thrones -- Resignations: Lord Bute's resignation, 1763., Mounted to 31 x 38 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
