"Satire on Bute's alleged sale of public positions paralleled with Earl Talbot's introduction of economies into the royal household. An auction is taking place in a large kitchen where, in the centre, Talbot, Lord Steward of the Household, instructs the auctioneer's clerk at a table beneath the podium. On the left, three cooks, one a Frenchman planning to leave for Calais to work for "Monsr. Grandsire", are mocked by a Scot for not being able to make haggis; another cook brandishing a gridiron and two ladles stands in front of the fireplace in which stands only a cracked pot filled with thistles. On the right, a poor man plans to bid for "old rags or broken glass", and a stout middle-class woman plans to purchase a ladle to beat her husband, while Princess Augusta and Lord Bute converse intimately; the Princess points suggestively to a large pot resting with other utensils on the floor. In the background, a chaplain laments the lack both "of victuals and of grace"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Catalogue of the kitchen furniture of John Bull Esqr. leaving of house-keeping now selling by auction
Description:
Title etched above image., Questionable artist attribution to Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,1.48., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Eighteen lines of verse in three columns below image: When Housekeeping fails which at present is true ..., "Price 6d"--Following imprint., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Formerly mounted on blue paper with residue on back.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament by J. Williams, next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Royal households, Accounting, Auctions, Cooks, and Kitchens
Title from caption etched above image., One line of text below image: Alteration and oh-economy., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register. London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Copy of no. 4079-5 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: royal kitchens -- Cooks -- Scullion -- Clergy -- Scots -- Animals: cat -- Vermin: rats -- Cooking hearths -- Wind., and Mounted to 31 x 44 cm.
Title etched above image., Below image: An account of the blocks their origin &c., with an escutcheon showing a jack boot in the center of text., Plate numbered: 49., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: land tax, 1762 -- Barbers: wig blocks -- Newspapers: North Briton -- Auditor -- Coffee-houses: Cocoa Tree Coffee House -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- Pugilists: Nailer ('Nail'em') -- Trades: coachmen -- Coachmen: fighting coachman, Stephenson 'Flogg'em.', and Mounted to 31 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Dashwood, Francis, Sir, 1708-1781, Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Kirby, Joshua, 1716-1774
The central figure of this satire is Lord Bute who stands on a chest labeled "Treasure Box". He is surrounded by his supporters, including Hogarth, and other members of the administration, Smollett, Murphy, Bedford, Dashwood, Townshend, Talbot, Kirby, etc. A satire on Bute's administration and his handling of tax reform and peace with France
Alternative Title:
Set of blocks for Hogarth's wigs
Description:
Title engraved above image., Attribution to Paul Sandby from Gunn., First state, as described in British Museum catalogue: plate without additional text and before addition of gallows., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Below image: An account of the blocks their origin ..., and "Price 6".
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Dashwood, Francis, Sir, 1708-1781, Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Kirby, Joshua, 1716-1774
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Anglo-French War, 1755-1763, Barbers, Engravers, Devil, and Wigs
Title from item., Attribution to Paul Sandby from Gunn., Third state, with an addition of a gallows on far right. See British Museum catalogue., Publication date inferred from earlier states., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Below image: An account of the blocks their origin &c., with an escutcheon showing a jack boot in the center of text., "Price 6"., and Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: land tax, 1762 -- Barbers: wig blocks -- Newspapers: North Briton -- Newspapers: Auditor -- Coffee-houses: Cocoa Tree Coffee House -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Reference to William Pitt the Elder -- Pugilists: Nailer ('Nail'em') -- Trades: coachmen -- Coachmen: fighting coachman, Stephenson 'Flogg'em.'
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Dashwood, Francis, Sir, 1708-1781, Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Kirby, Joshua, 1716-1774
Subject (Topic):
Taxation, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Anglo-French War, 1755-1763, Barbers, Engravers, Devil, Wigs, and Gallows
Title from item., Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published., First state, without plate no. Cf. No. 3991 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: Auctions: furniture auction -- Auctioneers -- Auctioneer's clerk -- Kitchen oeconomy, 1762 -- Fireplaces: kitchen fireplaces -- Utensils: kettle -- Utensils: spits -- Interiors: royal kitchen -- Sticks: wands -- Emblems: thistle (Scotland) -- Trades: cooks -- Clergy: chaplain., and Mounted to 32 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782
In an almost empty kitchen one of two fireplaces is not in use and holds a vase of flowers. Above it hangs a ham, a fish and a fish head, and a flitch of bacon. In the foreground, an elegant gentleman, Lord Talbot, appointed Steward of the Household in March 1761, reproves the cook, saying "Why such waste." With his right hand he is pointing to a man kneeling before him, a small emaciated dog beside him. The obese cook replies, "I must quit the service." Behind him, a servant sits at a large empty table, head in hand, saying, "Times are altered." Another servant behind the cook turns to leave the room, saying, "I shall have an to mysel." Under the table lie two large, empty baskets
Alternative Title:
Economy
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from item., Plate from: The London magazine; or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : Printed for R. Baldwin, v. 38 (1769), p. 167., Temporary local subject terms: Street scenes -- Mob -- Pall Mall -- Temple Bar -- Reference to William Allen, 1749-1768 -- Reference to John Clarke -- Vehicles: hearse -- Vehicles: coach -- Coffee houses: St. James -- Allusion to Brentford elections -- Crimes: reference to murder -- St. George's Fields., and Losses to sheet at bottom resulting in partial removal of title.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 and Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1764]
Call Number:
762.10.03.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An etching, showing Earl Talbot, who was Lord Steward of the Household, standing behind a "Fire Screen", on the floor near which are two saucepans ... duel ... Bagshot Heath"-- British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pot-lid & inkhorn and Pot-lid and inkhorn
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Publication place and date from book in which this plate appeared. Publication date in British Museum catalogue: 1762., Plate numbered '26' in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The second volume of The British antidote to Caledonian poison. London: E. Sumpter, [1764]., and Mounted to 33 x 31cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title from item., Plate numbered '7' in upper right corner., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ..., for the year 1762. [London, 1763]., Temporary local subject terms: Gardening: watering can -- Furniture: kitchen table -- Flowers -- Food: fish -- Kitchen equipment: spits., and Mounted to 27 x 30 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782 and Spencer, Charles, Lord, 1740-1820
Subject (Topic):
Clocks & watches, Cooking utensils, Cooks, Dogs, Fireplaces, and Kitchens
