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A New Flying Machine upon D.r Musgrave's Plan, that moves with ye same Rapidity as Mr. Moore's machine without Horses.
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. 110 x 180mm (4½ x 7"). Trimmed into plate at bottom.
A satirical engraving, with Lord Bute in a flying machine cranked by a devil, surrounded by money bags. He says 'waft me to Bareges, or any where but to Tower Hill', to which the devil replies 'Now I've got you, Head & all; I was afraid I should have had only the Trunk'. On the Princess Augusta clasps her hands saying ''And art thou fled, so is my Happiness''. Samuel Musgrave (1732-80) lived in Paris when the 1763 Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Seven Years' War. He believed British representatives (including Bute) had sold out to the French, allowing a treaty unfavourable to British interests (for example allowing the return of the Newfoundland fisheries). In 1769 Musgrave published a pamphlet in Devon, suggesting that France had bribed them. The following year the House of Commons decided that the charges were unsubstantiated.
BM Satire: 4212.
[Ref: 59965] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. 110 x 180mm (4½ x 7"). Trimmed into plate at bottom.
A satirical engraving, with Lord Bute in a flying machine cranked by a devil, surrounded by money bags. He says 'waft me to Bareges, or any where but to Tower Hill', to which the devil replies 'Now I've got you, Head & all; I was afraid I should have had only the Trunk'. On the Princess Augusta clasps her hands saying ''And art thou fled, so is my Happiness''. Samuel Musgrave (1732-80) lived in Paris when the 1763 Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Seven Years' War. He believed British representatives (including Bute) had sold out to the French, allowing a treaty unfavourable to British interests (for example allowing the return of the Newfoundland fisheries). In 1769 Musgrave published a pamphlet in Devon, suggesting that France had bribed them. The following year the House of Commons decided that the charges were unsubstantiated.
BM Satire: 4212.
[Ref: 59965] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)