The north star [engraving]

The north star [engraving]

Gentleman's and London magazine

[Dublin : s.n., 1764]

1 print ; image 16 x 19 cm. on sheet 20 x 23 cm.

P&E L2017F154m

(OCoLC)60763105

Satire critical of the terms of Prime Minister Bute's treaty of peace with France to end the Seven Years' War; 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; on Bute's right, also in the clouds, is the Duke of Grafton; a figure burns a book marked "Rights of the subjects," and tramples on a bill labeled "Liberty of the press"; in the background, on the left, a Scottish soldier with sword raised is about to slay Britannia; on the right, is standing John Wilkes aghast at the scene before him.
This print appeared in "The gentleman's and London magazine," Doublin, 1764.

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