North Star,Lord Bute,Cat-o'-nine-tails,Laws of England,1768,William Pitt

Title: The north star
Date Created/Published: [1768]
Summary: Print shows Lord Bute seated on clouds from behind which project rays of the sun, he holds a cat-o'-nine-tails in one hand, a purse in the other, his feet rest on an open volume of 'the Laws of England'. To his left sits William Pitt who wears a crown of three feathers and holds a crutch topped with a coronet and from which hangs a beggar's pouch. On Bute's right, also in the clouds, is the Duke of Grafton. Various ministers, some identifiable, prostrate themselves before the figures on the clouds. In the background, on the left, a Scottish soldier with sword raised is about to slay Britannia; in the foreground, on the right, is standing John Wilkes aghast at the scene before him.
Notes:
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4229
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 637.
Subjects:
Bute, John Stuart,--Earl of,--1713-1792.
Pitt, William,--Earl of Chatham,--1708-1778.
Wilkes, John,--1725-1797.
Politics & government--Great Britain--1760-1770.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1760-1770.
Intaglio prints--British--1760-1770.
Bookmark /2004672620/
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