Struensee's Ghost, or Lord B-te and M-n-d in the Horrors.
[Oxford Magazine Ap. 1772.]
Etching. 155 x 100mm (6¼ x 4"), with margins.
A satire of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, showing him recoiling from a figure floating towards him, holding its own head in its hands. Behind Bute stands William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield. Bute had been accused of being the lover of the Dowager Princess of Wales. Johann Friedrich, Count of Struensee, had fallen from power and executed, having been the lover of the Queen of Denmark.
BM Satires 16731.
[Ref: 54344] £160.00
Etching. 155 x 100mm (6¼ x 4"), with margins.
A satire of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, showing him recoiling from a figure floating towards him, holding its own head in its hands. Behind Bute stands William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield. Bute had been accused of being the lover of the Dowager Princess of Wales. Johann Friedrich, Count of Struensee, had fallen from power and executed, having been the lover of the Queen of Denmark.
BM Satires 16731.
[Ref: 54344] £160.00