The mitred minuet [engraving]

The mitred minuet [engraving]

The London magazine

[London] [May 1, 1774]

1 print ; 11 x 18 cm. on sheet 12 x 19 cm.

P&E L1980.1.431m

Satirical print. Four bishops in robes and mitres dance around "Quebec Bill" while four bishops in clerical robes look on to the right. Lord Bute, Lord North and a Highland piper stand to the left, with a devil hovering over them. A prelude to the American revolution, the Quebec Act, May 20, 1774, was greeted with mixed reactions in the colonies, Canada, and England since it granted freedom of religion to the Catholic French Canadians and created fear among the English for the Anglican Church.
This unattributed engraving was published in the London Magazine for July, 1774.
Copies appeared in The London Magazine, July 1774; The Hibernian Magazine of Dublin, August, 1774 and Paul Revere copied this print and submitted it to the Royal American Magazine published by Joseph Greenleaf in October, 1774 -- see Clarence S. Brigham. Paul Revere's engravings: Worcester, Mass, 1954.
Exhibited at Anderson House in a display of satirical prints, caricatures, and political incorrectness in the age of reason, May 14 - September 30, 2002. Stored as matted.

Cresswell, Donald H. The American revolution in drawings and prints, 666
Dolmetsch, Joan D. Rebellion and reconciliation, no. 24

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