"Satire on the negotiations for the Peace of Paris. A lion and lioness (the King and Queen) look in alarm from the window of a coach (Great Britain) as it crashes against a large rock. Lord Bute, the driver, and Princess Augusta, who has been sitting beside him, fall headlong to the ground and the horses (bearing names connected with British actions in the Seven Years War: "Germany", "Guardeloup", "Pondechery", "America", "Martinico" and "Quebec") run off. Bute cries out, "De'el dam that Havanna Snuff its all most blinded me". The postilion, Henry Fox, lies on the ground having hit his head on a rock labelled "Newfound Land"; a speech balloon lettered "Snugg" emerges from his mouth. Behind him Pitt, holding a whip, grasps the leading horse's reins; the Marquis of Granby gallops up to assist him, together with William Beckford (who was shortly to become Lord Mayor of London) and the Duke of Newcastle. In the foreground is a conflict involving a number of journalists: Bute's supporters, Arthur Murphy and Tobias Smollett shoot their pistols at Pitt, and further to the right Charles Churchill, in clerical robes, fires a cannon labelled "North Briton" at them, causing another man to fall to the ground his arm resting on a copy of the Gazetteer (the fallen man must be either Charles Say, editor, or John Almon, contributor to the Gazetteer, an anti-Bute newspaper), with the headline, "A letter from Darlington" (a reference to Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington, a relation of Bute's by marriage). The British lion beside Churchill urinates on the Scottish thistle. Behind this group, the Duke of Cumberland runs forward anxiously mopping his bald head, having lost his wig. In the background are Lord Mansfield and the Earl of Loudon, the latter suggesting that they retreat (a reference to his failure to capture Louisbourg from the French in 1757). To the right a group of Scotsmen are driven off by two Englishmen with whips; another Scot sits on the ground scratching himself."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fall of Mortimer, Coach overturned, and Coach overturn'd
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., and Four columns of verse below image: With raptures Britannia take notice at last, proud Sawney turn'd over by driving too fast ...
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770, and Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330.
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Politics and government, Cannons, Carriages & coaches, Journalists, National emblems, British, Scottish, and Newspapers
Title from item., Two columns of verse below image: Hitherto .... I have perform'd. Not without wonder ... Samson Agonistes., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 1 (1767), p. 201., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Westminster Hall -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Personifications: Liberty -- Emblems: cap of liberty -- Emblems: anchor -- Reference to Magna Charta -- Reference to the Glorious Revolution -- Reference to the accession of the House of Brunswick -- Musical instruments: lyre -- Emblems: thunderbolts -- Bible: Samson destroying a temple -- Literature: quotation from Samson Agonistes by John Milton, 1608-1674, lines 1640-1659., and Mounted to 37 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770, Hawke, Edward Hawke, Baron, 1705-1781, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Secker, Thomas, 1693-1768
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 3(1768), p. 65., Temporary local subject terms: Altars: Baal's altar -- Reference to the liberty of the press -- Reference to the Constitution -- Reference to Habeas corpus -- Discharged sailor -- Scourge -- Bags of money -- Allusion to the East India Company -- Allusion to the Bank of England -- Allusion to the American colonies -- Emblems: an earl's coronet -- Pensions: allusion to Lord Chatham's pension., and Mounted to 32 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794, Warburton, William, 1698-1779, Winchilsea, Daniel Finch, Earl of, 1689-1769, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Northington, Robert Henley, Earl of, 1708?-1772, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770, Rigby, Richard, 1722-1788, Rochford, William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, Earl of, 1717-1781, and Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Gout, Beggars, Peg legs, and Musical instruments
Title from caption above image., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Two lines of quote below image: His wit all seesaw between that & this; and he himself one vile antithesis. Pope., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 3 (1768), page 257., and Temporary local subject terms: Debts: national debt -- Hell -- Riots: reference to St. George's Fields, May 10, 1768 -- Reference to John Wilkes, 1725-1797 -- Personfications: Folly -- Zanies -- Devil -- Seesaws -- Whips -- Literature: quotation from Alexander Pope.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770, Bath, Thomas Thynne, Marquis of, 1734-1796, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794, Rigby, Richard, 1722-1788, Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of, 1721-1803, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806
"Satire on the negotiations for the Peace of Paris. A lion and lioness (the King and Queen) look in alarm from the window of a coach (Great Britain) as it crashes against a large rock. Lord Bute, the driver, and Princess Augusta, who has been sitting beside him, fall headlong to the ground and the horses (bearing names connected with British actions in the Seven Years War: "Germany", "Guardeloup", "Pondechery", "America", "Martinico" and "Quebec") run off. Bute cries out, "De'el dam that Havanna Snuff its all most blinded me". The postilion, Henry Fox, lies on the ground having hit his head on a rock labelled "Newfound Land"; a speech balloon lettered "Snugg" emerges from his mouth. Behind him Pitt, holding a whip, grasps the leading horse's reins; the Marquis of Granby gallops up to assist him, together with William Beckford (who was shortly to become Lord Mayor of London) and the Duke of Newcastle. In the foreground is a conflict involving a number of journalists: Bute's supporters, Arthur Murphy and Tobias Smollett shoot their pistols at Pitt, and further to the right Charles Churchill, in clerical robes, fires a cannon labelled "North Briton" at them, causing another man to fall to the ground his arm resting on a copy of the Gazetteer (the fallen man must be either Charles Say, editor, or John Almon, contributor to the Gazetteer, an anti-Bute newspaper), with the headline, "A letter from Darlington" (a reference to Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington, a relation of Bute's by marriage). The British lion beside Churchill urinates on the Scottish thistle. Behind this group, the Duke of Cumberland runs forward anxiously mopping his bald head, having lost his wig. In the background are Lord Mansfield and the Earl of Loudon, the latter suggesting that they retreat (a reference to his failure to capture Louisbourg from the French in 1757). To the right a group of Scotsmen are driven off by two Englishmen with whips; another Scot sits on the ground scratching himself."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fall of Mortimer and Coach overturned
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., Two columns of verse below image: With raptures, Britannia take notice at last, proud Sawney's turn'd over by driving too fast ..., Plate numbered '31' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's, [1763]., and Mounted to 29 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770, and Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330.
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Politics and government, Cannons, Carriages & coaches, Journalists, National emblems, British, Scottish, and Newspapers
Title from item., Publication date from British catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in four columns below image: Whilst Marshal C-t-s [i.e., Contades] & [the] gallant gay B-lio [i.e., Broglie], with their armies advanced in order so droll-o ..., and Mounted to 27 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1721-1792, Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785, and Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770
Subject (Topic):
Minden, Battle of, Germany, 1759 and Seven Years' War, 1756-1763
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Britannia (Symbolic character) -- Tools: pickaxe -- Emblems: Privy Seal -- Lighting: candle extinguisher -- Crowns: earl's coronet -- Ministries: Pitt's ministry, 1766 -- Allusion to William Henry Cavendish-Bentick, the Duke of Portland -- Allusion to Charles Townshend, 1725-1767 -- Ghosts., and Mounted to 32 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794, Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Northington, Robert Henley, Earl of, 1708?-1772, Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770, Allen, Ralph, 1694-1764, Marlborough, Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of, 1660-1744, and Pynsent, William, Sir 1680 or 81-1765
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Two lines of quote below image: -- yet be not sad, good brothers / For to speak the truth it very well becomes you. Shakespeare., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 2 (1768), p.66., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: truck -- Pcitures amplifying subject -- Ministries: Grafton Administration -- Male dress: waistcoats -- Influence: Lord Bute's influence -- Punishment: birch rod -- Edward Bright, 1721-1750., and Mounted to 37 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770, De Grey, William, Baron Walsingham, 1719-1781, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Willes, Edward, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, and Northington, Robert Henley, Earl of, 1708?-1772
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Four lines of verse below image: The puppets blindly led away, are made to act for ends unknown ..., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 1 (1767)., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: St. James's Palace -- Puppets -- Puppeteers -- Theater: stage -- Theater curtain -- Devil -- Audiences -- Wigs: bag wig.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793, Warburton, William, 1698-1779, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, Winchilsea, Daniel Finch, Earl of, 1689-1769, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, and Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the original from which this copy was made., Four lines of verse below image: The puppets blindly led away, / Are made to act for ends unknown ..., Reversed copy of No. 4230 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: St. James's Palace -- Puppets -- Puppeteers -- Theater: stage -- Devil -- Audiences.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792, Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789, Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793, Warburton, William, 1698-1779, Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, Winchilsea, Daniel Finch, Earl of, 1689-1769, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773, and Granby, John Manners, Marquis of, 1721-1770
