Design occupying top third of plate shows Bute driving a cart labelled G.R. III, having just crossed the Rubicon, laden with National Debt, Pensioners, etc., drawn by ministerial donkeys including ones labelled North, Germaine, Sandwich, and Weymouth. The donkeys are assailed by opposition dogs Burke, Wilkes, Fox etc. In the upper left an overloaded boat depicts the "Commissioners setting off for America." Smaller insets beneath the main image refer to the balance of power and antiministerial demonstrations. Two columns of dialect verse beneath image, follow the title "A new gallant shew or the ministry's cabinet & minority's closet broke open" signed at bottom by Doodle Doodle Doo. A criticism of both governmental ministry and the opposition
Alternative Title:
View of the political state of the nation
Description:
Title from item., Imperfect; cropped with loss of imprint and last 2 lines of verse., Date of publication from English political caricature., Publisher from impression in John Carter Brown Library., "Price 1 shilg.", and Mounted to 33 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs May 11, 1778 at Darly's, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, United States, and America.
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790., Hancock, John, 1737-1793., and Adams, John, 1735-1826.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, History, Colonies, Donkeys, Carts & wagons, Dogs, Seesaws, and Coats of arms
Reaction to the Battle of Long Island and the capture of New York by British forces. North and Mansfield stand on a platform, the former holding up a dispatch from Howe. Bute and George III stand behind them. A distressed Wilkes stands in the left foreground, with a tearful woman on the ground near him holding the cap of Liberty. Two ministers are depicted on the right, one being Sandwich, the other probably Germain. The seacoast is visible in the background with ships, some sinking
Alternative Title:
Patriots in the dumps
Description:
Title from item., Above image in plate: Lond. Mag. Nov. 1776., and From the London Magazine v, 45, p. 599 of Nov. 1776, although British museum catalogue gives date as Dec. 1, 1776.
Publisher:
Publisher not indentified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, America., and United States
Subject (Name):
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, and Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785.
Subject (Topic):
Long Island, Battle of, New York, N.Y., 1776, Colonies, History, and Campaigns
"A huntsman (left), mounted on a horse snorting flames which are inscribed "Faction", preceded by the "ministerial hounds", chases a stag, inscribed "Constitution". The huntsman is Bate, afterwards Bate Dudley, representing the Ministerial Press. He is dressed like the body of news vendors with drums and trumpets to advertise the 'Morning Post' seen by Walpole in Nov. 1776 (see BMSat 5550), and is blowing a trumpet. His cap is inscribed "Post", round his shoulders is slung a bundle inscribed "Materials for Post", made up of "Satire", "Malice", "Scandal", "Falsehood". From his pocket hangs a paper, "The Art of Lying made Easy by B." He leaps a fence inscribed "Bounds of Discretion". The hounds are taking a circular course as the stag has doubled back and is advancing towards a ravine, a signpost pointing "To the Vale of Oblivion". The stag says "I shall fall like Lucifer never to Hope again." The two foremost hounds have human faces; the first (North) says "We shall soon be in at the Death - She can go no further N . . . h". The next, inscribed "Twitcher" (Lord Sandwich), says "I have long had her Destruction at Heart & the sooner the better". The third (Lord G. Germain) says, "I run almost as fast now as I did at Minden" (cf. BMSat 5675). Next is a dog with a judge's wig (Mansfield) saying, "She will find no Covert near Caen Wood" (cf. BMSat 4885). A dog inscribed "L. S." says "I am the sort to go Thro Thick & Thin"; perhaps intended for Lord Stormont, Secretary of State, and Mansfield's nephew, or possibly for Lovel Stanhope, who was appointed Comptroller of the Board of Green Cloth in September 1780. A dog with the face of a demon, [Mr Hawkins has written "Jer. Dyson" on this dog, but he died in 1776] probably representing the Devil as in BMSat 5675, says, "I allways was firm to the cause". The next dog is inscribed "Log" and is saying "I stick at Nothing". This is evidently Sir Hugh Palliser, whose log-book was found at his court martial to have been altered, see BMSat 5536, 5537. The last dog says "I am Adam'd Good Dog but ye last Fox Hunt Had like to be Death of me". He is William Adam, whose duel with Fox on 29 Nov. 1779 roused much bitterness against the ministry, see BMSat 5575, 5625. The scene is a wooded hill and the going is rough. Behind Bate on the left is the partly ruined "Templum Libertatis" overgrown with shrubs and shored up by timbers inscribed "Richmond", "Barre", "Camden", "Burke & Fox", "Wilks". Beneath the design is etched: "Hungry Dogs the old Proverbs say Eat dirty Pudding, when in their way So Will these Dogs as oft we are told Catch at any thing which looks like Gold. Or bears the least Aspect of doing Good for themselves tho their Country ruin. Tis little Rogues submit to fate Whilst ye Great enjoy ye World in State.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ministerial hounds in full cry
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed, with upper right corner torn off., and Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Dudley, H. Bate Sir, 1745-1824. (Henry Bate),, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785., Palliser, Hugh, Sir, 1723-1796., and Adam, William, 1751-1839.
"A view of Temple Bar, with three heads on spikes. The heads are being pelted with stones, dead dogs, &c, by a crowd of men, women, and children. A market-woman smoking a pipe kneels before her basket, and is about to use its contents as missiles. Another woman says "This is a sight I have long wish[ed] to see". A boy holds a stone in one hand, a dead dog or cat in the other. A man waves his hat, crying, "Steer to the North", indicating that one of the victims is Lord North; another says, "There goes for Germany" (Lord George Germain). The third is evidently Lord Sandwich. Another man says "This is a happy day for England". A man waves his wig in delight. Small figures hurling missiles are seen through the centre arch; passers-by appear through the two side arches. On the upper part of the masonry of the arch is sketched a figure of Justice, seated on clouds, her scales in one hand, a spear in the other. The statues of two kings in the alcoves show that this is the west side of Temple Bar. On Temple Bar are placards: "Lecture upon Heads", a punning allusion to the popular 'Lecture' of George Alexander Stevens; "A Cure for a Distressed] nation" and "1745", in allusion to the heads on Temple Bar after the Jacobite rebellion. See BMSat 5660, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate line., and Mounted to 32 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, (39) Strand
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785., Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784., and Temple Bar (London, England)
"Three men with mallet, hammer, and chisel are breaking an enormous bowl which is already much damaged, cracked, and patched. The bowl is supported on its end by a block (left) on which stand two of the tinkers. On the ground (right) kneels Lord North, working on the interior of the bowl with a hammer and chisel. On the ground beside him is a paper inscribed "Ld North". Behind the bowl (left), and about to strike it with a large mallet, a man dressed as an artisan stands on a block; a paper in his pocket is inscribed "Ld Sandwich" and pasted on the wall behind his head is a "List of the Navy". Next him, wielding a hammer and chisel, is a man dressed as a military officer; the "Plan of Minden" on the wall behind his head shows that he is Lord George Germain. Behind North, his hands raised in pleased surprise, stands George III, wearing a feathered turban surmounted by a crown, probably intended to indicate that he is behaving like an oriental despot, see BMSat 5544-7. Over his shoulder looks Bute in tartan, also smiling, his right hand raised, as if admonishing the king. Beneath the title is engraved: "The National Kettle, which once was a good one, For boiling of Mutton, of Beef, & of Pudding, By the fault of the Cook, was quite out of repair, When the Tinkers were sent for, - Behold them & Stare. The Master he thinks, they are wonderful Clever, And cries out in raptures, 'tis done! now or never! Yet sneering the Tinkers their old Trade pursue, In stopping of one Hole - they're sure to make Two.""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 10th, 1780, by W. Humphrey No. 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785., and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792.
