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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
A bull snorts angrily as it tosses a Spaniard in the air and is restrained by three men pulling its tail behind, a native American and a well-dressed French gentleman cower in fright to the right and a Dutchman sitting on a barrel of gin and smoking a pipe looks on in amusement. Coloured etching by James Gillray, 1780.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: Jan 4 1780Reference: 585026i- Pictures
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Lord North and the Earl of Mansfield stand on a platform addressing a group of distressed patriots beyond which ships of war sail and sink. Engraving, 1776.
Date: [1 Dec. 1776]Reference: 584820i- Pictures
Ralph Allen making a speech to the Corporation of Bath. Etching by W. Hibbart, 1763.
Hibbart, William, 1725-1808.Date: [28 May] 1763Reference: 12164i- 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- Pictures
A bull tied down by Scottish politicians and burdened with taxation is baited by a Spaniard and a Frenchman and treated with contempt by a Dutchman; representing Great Britain in 1779. Engraving, 1779.
Date: Dec.r 6. 1779Reference: 2921460i- Pictures
King George III sits on his throne asleep while the new ministry, helped by devils, drives out the king's old advisers. Etching by J. Gillray, 1782.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: April 2 1783Reference: 585051i- Books
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An address to the Cocoa-Tree from a Whig. And a consultation on the subject of a standing-army, held at the King's-Arms Tavern, on the twenty-eighth day of February, 1763.
Butler, John, 1717-1802.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Pictures
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A woman being stabbed while the blood pouring from her wounds is drunk by a group of men; representing Britannia's resources being drained by politicians. Engraving, 1768.
Date: [10 May 1768]Reference: 12166i- Pictures
Sophie Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen Charlotte of Great Britain, consort to King George III. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi after W. Beechey.
Beechey, William, Sir, 1753-1839.Date: Jan.y 1 1799Reference: 2858255i- Books
Contributions towards a dictionary of English book-collectors : as also of some foreign collectors whose libraries were incorporated in English collections or whose books are chiefly met with in England / edited by Bernard Quaritch.
Date: 1892-1921