A jack-boot stands on top of a truncated obelisk enclosed within a triangular gibbet from which hang a fox and a goose from garlands; representing the Treaty of Paris, 1763. Etching, 1763.

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[Feb 10 1763]
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581173i
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A jack-boot stands on top of a truncated obelisk enclosed within a triangular gibbet from which hang a fox and a goose from garlands; representing the Treaty of Paris, 1763. Etching, 1763. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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On the signing of the Peace of Paris of 10 February 1763. It ended the Seven Years' War. The signatories were Great Britain, France and Spain. France surrendered Canada and parts of India to Great Britain. The jack-boot refers to the Earl of Bute who also appears in a medallion portrait on the obelisk. Gisbal was also apparently a nickname for Bute. The fox refers to Henry Fox who was then paymaster-general in Bute's cabinet; the goose represents the Duke of Bedford who concluded the peace

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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [Feb 10 1763]

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1 print : etching ; platemark 19.9 x 14.6 cm

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As you like it or English grattitude The following inscription is etched above the image: 'Erected by the voluntary subscriptions of Englishmen to perpetuate the memmory of Gisbal a northern patriot who in the year sixty two when they were over run with success saved them from the danger of honest glory by a - peace

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British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, Vol. IV, London 1978, no. 4003

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Wellcome Collection 581173i

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