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[The unpopularity of Lord Bute] The Pillars of the State.

[The unpopularity of Lord Bute] The Pillars of the State.

Design'd & Engrav'd for the Political Register.
[n.d., 1768].
Etching with engraving. 180 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Trimmed into plate on right.
Two anti-Bute satires. Above is a ship running onto rocks, with a sailing damning 'that Scottish Pilot'. Below Lord Mayor Thomas Harley and Samuel Gillam, J.P., hold up a beam with a noose, on which is written 'English or Irish here shall freely swing, No Scot while Sawney rules, shall grace ye String'. Behind them is a scene of soldiers firing on a crowd at St George’s Fields, 10th May 1768, a protest against the imprisonment of the radical Member of Parliament John Wilkes.
BM Satires 4235.
[Ref: 54364]  £95.00


 

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