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The resignation: or, the fox out of the pit, and the geese in, with B----g at the bottom.
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LVI. [1756]- Pictures
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A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809Date: [1762]Reference: 12163i- Pictures
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A doctor giving a woman some medicine in front of a group of disagreeing men; representing Dr. Musgrave's attempt to bring charges against a group of politicians who had allegedly taken bribes from the French to complete the Treaty of Paris in 1763. Etching, 1769.
Date: [12 August 1769]Reference: 12168i- Books
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The characters of George the First, Queen Caroline, Sir Robert Walpole, Mr. Pulteney, Lord Hardwicke, Mr. Fox, and Mr. Pitt, reviewed. With royal and noble anecdotes: and a sketch of Lord Chesterfield's character.
Davies, Thomas, 1713-1785.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]