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Macbeth and the Doctor; or, Sawney in a Fever   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
Macbeth and the Doctor; or, Sawney in a Fever
Description
English: Broadside satirising Lord Bute and Dr John Hill at the time of Bute's resignation on 9 April 1763. Bute, sick in bed with the devil gloating at his side, addresses Hill in a paraphrase of Macbeth addressing the doctor in Act 5, Scene 3, "Canst Thou not minisiter to a Mind diseas'd .....". The voice of the king (who is not shown) appears in a speech balloon at the right, "The Half of my Kingdom to save his Precious Life!". Hill offers "Water Dock", according to Hawkins a cure for scurvy; in his pocket is "Bardana" for gout, and on a table among other nostrums "Balsam of Hone[y]". Verses beneath in the form of a conversation between the two men make clear that Bute's complaint is mental rather than physical; he begs to know how his resignation has been received and is alarmed to learn that "the Nation" has realised that his "Resigning is all a mere Sham". Etched image with letterpress title and dialogue verses in two columns, and with one vertical and one horizontal segment of type ornament. ([London], Sumpter: [1763])
Depicted people Representation of: John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
Date 1763
date QS:P571,+1763-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 155 millimetres (etching)
Height: 324 millimetres (printed area)
Width: 192 millimetres (etching)
Width: 197 millimetres (printed area)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4297
Notes

The print is advertised in the Public Advertiser on 3 May 1763, and at the foot of "Ayliffe's Ghost" (BM Satires 4038) and "Jockey Elliot and his Hobby Horse" (BM Satires 4047); the price is given as 6d. Stephens records advertisements in the Public Advertiser for "Essence of Water Dock" on 30 March 1761 and for "Elixir of Bardana, a new Medicine, Prepared by the Directions of Dr. Hill" on 4 May 1763.

Hill's scientific publications were supported by Bute by 1758 and he helped with the laying out of Kew Gardens.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4297
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