"Satire on Scots profiting from the influence of Lord Bute and his supposed relationship with Princess Augusta, showing a young Scotsman addressing the Princess with the support of a number of ladies, including Lady Mary Stuart, Lord Bute's daughter, who says, "Upon my Papa's Recommendation & mine your sure of Success"; a rebus below complains of the surprising Scottish achievements considering the recent rebellion of 1745."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sawney at St. ******, Sawney at St. James's, and Powerful recommendation
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Twenty lines of verse below image, in a form of rebus: Ye Br[i][tton]s who'd think in the [Time]s of re[bel][lion]? T[hat] Caledon's [child]ren wou'd ere [be] thought [well] on ..., Temporary local subject terms: Mary Stuart, Countess of Lonsdale., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and Mounted to 37 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by all the printsellers and pamplett shops on this side the Tweed
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Lonsdale, Mary Lowther, Countess of, 1740-1824
