Two Scotsmen flying on a witch's broomstick from Edinburgh to London; representing Scots usurping the positions of southerners under the government of Lord Bute. Etching by P. Sandby, 1762.
- Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809.
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- Sept. 1762
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A caricature of the influx of Scotsmen arriving in England after the Earl of Bute was appointed First Lord of the Treasury (Prime Minister) in May 1762 by his former pupil, King George III. Gunn (op. cit.) identifies a poem by Charles Churchill as the source for the two Scotsmen shown by Sandby: The prophesy of famine: a Scots pastoral, which Churchill was working on in 1762, intending to dedicate it to John Wilkes. One of the Scotsmen in Sandby's print holds the poem Fingal (Fingal, an ancient epic poem in six books) attributed to Ossian, the first part of which had been published in 1761
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