A broadside satirising the Peace Treaty with France, and the involvements of Lord Bute, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Lord Carteret, and William Pitt; with an etching showing four men sitting at a table with a punch bowl and candlesticks, drinking and smoking pipes; in the background four men standing. The song includes references to Sawney, Taffey, Paddy, and Will English, Scotch, Welsh, Irish, and English characters
Description:
Caption title in letterpress, below image, Imprint from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and below letterpress, with loss of imprint., Below title: Adapted to proper tunes in the English, Irish, Welch and Scotch taste, inscribed to all true lovers of Old England., and Two columns of verse below title, comprising the text of the song, divided by a vertical line of ornamental floral type: "Recitative. 'Twas on that memorable Day, When thro' the streets, with loud Huzza! ...
Publisher:
Printed for J. Williams, next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet-Street ...
Subject (Name):
Williams-Wynn, Watkin, Sir, 1692-1749., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778.
Iohn Bull and his sister Peg and John Bull and his sister Peg
Description:
Title from caption etched above image., Reduced and reversed copy, without verse, of No. 3904 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.4., Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute -- Emblems: olive branch -- Emblems: fleur-de-lis -- Scots., and Window mounted to 25 x 19 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Treaty of Paris, Emblems, Apes, Foxes, Geese, and Shoemakers
"A broadside satirising Lord Bute, his Cider Excise scheme, and the Peace Treaty of Paris (1762); with an etching showing a podium with King George III seated on a throne, in front of him a group of men (aldermen) delivering a petition; on the right Lord Bute, dressed in tartan; with engraved speech bubbles and inscriptions, and with letterpress title and verses in one column."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sawney's oeconomy and Sawney's economy
Description:
Caption title from song in letterpress printed below the plate., Above title: To the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London; To the glorious Opposition; and to the authors of the North Briton, this piece is humbly inscribed., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top., Eight stanzas of song below title: All the friends of the land, who corruption withstand, the Muse patriotic must prize ..., "(Price six-pence).", Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Where may be had the Tyburn Interview., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and Mounted to 41 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Burd, in the Temple Exchange Passage, Fleet Street, and sold by all printsellers, &c. in London and Westminster
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Title from caption etched above image., One line of text below image: There's honour for you, Sir Iohn Falstaff., Plate from: The Butiad, or, Political register ... London : Printed for E. Sumpter, 1763., Reversed copy of no. 4079-1 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Executions: Tyburn -- Carts with convicts -- Gallows -- Veterans -- Amputees -- Medical: peg leg -- Punishments: stocks., and Mounted to 33 x 43 cm.
"Satire on the negotiations for peace with France. A scene in a slaughter house with a tethered bull over which Lord Bute raises a poll axe while a French cook exclaims to a butcher that the calf's head (the Duke of Bedford) that he holds has no brains. Verses below allude to slaughtered sheep hanging on the wall and beside the block as "Butcher'd and Sold ...for Curst Gallic Gold"; they blame British humiliation on the Scots."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Caledonian slaughterhouse, or, The death of John Bull and Death of John Bull
Description:
Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two columns of verse below image: Alas! poor John Bull how severe is thy lot, to be led to the slaughter by Sawney the Scot ..., and Mounted to 34 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character) and Treaty of Paris
Title from letterpress text below image., Broadside song illustrated with an engraving entitled: An honourable pea-ce, or a vigourous war., Below the text of the song: Sold by the author, opposite of the Union Coffee-House, in the Strand, near Temple-Bar, and by other print and pamphlet-sellers, &c., Temporary local subject terms: Old Bedford Head -- Emblems: Sawney McBoot for Lord Bute -- Food: mess of soup -- Peas porridge -- Attic salt -- Hollanders -- The Union -- French money -- English will., and Mounted to 43 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliamt
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Subject (Topic):
Treaty of Paris, Coffeehouses, Interiors, Kitchens, Taverns (Inns), and Signs (Notices)
