![[The unpopularity of Lord Bute] The Waistcoat.](jpegs/54365.jpg)
[The unpopularity of Lord Bute] The Waistcoat.Yet be not sad, good Brothers, / For, to Speak the Truth, it very well becomes you.
[n.d., 1768].
Etching with engraving. 190 x 120mm (7½ x 4¾"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, stands on a stage, holding a birch rod and trampling on the fallen figure of Britannia, and pulling a child's toy truck on which stand a group of diminutive members of the administration encased in a large tartan coat. On the wall behind is a portrait of Edward Bright (1721-50), the grocer known as the ''fat man of Maldon''. A satire on the alleged continuing dominance of Lord Bute five years after his resignation from office. It suggests that William Pitt, Fletcher Norton Lord Mansfield, Duke of Grafton et all, are sheltering in Bute's outsize waistcoat. Published in the Political Register, February 1768.
BM Satires 4181.
[Ref: 54365] £95.00
Etching with engraving. 190 x 120mm (7½ x 4¾"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, stands on a stage, holding a birch rod and trampling on the fallen figure of Britannia, and pulling a child's toy truck on which stand a group of diminutive members of the administration encased in a large tartan coat. On the wall behind is a portrait of Edward Bright (1721-50), the grocer known as the ''fat man of Maldon''. A satire on the alleged continuing dominance of Lord Bute five years after his resignation from office. It suggests that William Pitt, Fletcher Norton Lord Mansfield, Duke of Grafton et all, are sheltering in Bute's outsize waistcoat. Published in the Political Register, February 1768.
BM Satires 4181.
[Ref: 54365] £95.00