Lord Bute in Highland dress jumps over numbered stone posts beside an open pit. Etching, 1762.
- Date:
- [May 1762]
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- 581192i
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Lord Bute kicks out at the Duke of Newcastle knocking him off his post. Bute became a Scottish representative peer in the House of Lords in 1761. He succeeded Newcastle as first lord of the treasury in May 1762. The waning political power of William Pitt the elder is referred to by the gaping pit that yawns beneath Bute
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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [May 1762]
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1 print : etching ; sheet 17 x 28 cm
Lettering
The laird of the post's or the bonnett's exalted
There are numerous speech bubbles within the print; the verse below reads: 'Behold my good friends, what a wonderful sight ... By scratching to scrubbing, themselves into place'
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1978, Vol. IV, no. 3862,
Reference
Wellcome Collection 581192i
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