"Satire on the times in four compartments each showing the figure of Time and a grindstone in relation to current events: the incompetent management of war with France; John Barnard's lottery scheme, in which Henry Legge, Chancellor of the Exchequer, had invested heavily; Henry Fox's "Treachery,Vanity, Folly & Impudence" which Pitt promises to crush; the burden of taxes on all but the friends of the Devil."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Design divided into four compartments, each with its own title and numbered Part 1 to 4., Temporary local subject terms: Grinding stones -- Britannia (Symbolic character) -- British Lion -- Personifications: Time -- Frenchmen -- Spaniards., and Mounted to 23 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Title from British Museum catalogue., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., State without title and with original publication date partially burnished from plate. Cf. No. 3880 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: Throne Room -- Orders: Order of the Thistle -- Harlequins -- Scots., and Mounted to 30 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774