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Six remarkable heads
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English: Six caricature portraits in circles illustrating 'The Sale by Auction, A Dream', pp. 360-4, in which members or adherents of the Ministry are put up to auction at Christie's.


N° 1. The head of an ass, "a prime minister" (Lord North), Minister and an ass being synonymous terms.
N° 2. The bust-portrait of a man in riding-dress, wearing a jockey cap, a riding whip under his left. arm. "A duke, a gambler, a privy-counsellor and a skeleton!" The Duke of Grafton, see BMSat 4959. Having refused a post in the Cabinet, he took little part in the Government, and attacks on him by caricatures were probably stimulated by the 'Letters of Junius', e.g. that of 27 Nov. 1771. 'Letters', ed. Everett, 1927, 269 ff.
N° 3. Bust-portrait of a man in laced coat looking to left., scarcely a caricature. He is described as "the miraculous Br------w himself alias Cream-coloured Tommy", and pilloried as a procurer. Thomas Bradshaw, a Lord of the Admiralty and secretary to Grafton. Junius, op. et loc. cit., attacks him, using and perhaps bestowing the epithet cream-coloured. He was surnamed "the cream-coloured parasite". Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, i. 351. Walpole calls him "Pimp to Lord Barrington". Notes on 'Mason's Satires', ed. Toynbee, p. 64. See BMSat 4959, 5018.
N° 4. half length portrait of a black man in a striped suit. 'Mungo' or Jeremiah Dyson, here described as bought by the Irish patriots to be hanged in effigy, an allusion to the miscarriage of his Irish pension, see BMSat 4936, 4942.
N° 5. Bust-portrait of a macaroni, wearing a small hat, a club or queue of hair, and holding a tasselled cane. He is described as "the Cub", and was to be thrown away not sold, "for all people seem to be of opinion, "That a Macaroni is worth nothing"". He is C. J. Fox, who was the macaroni par excellence, as the term was used by Walpole, for the extravagant young gamblers who were leaders of fashion. Cf. Walpole's comment on Mason's lines:

"The Jews and Macaroni's are at war:
The Jews prevail, and thund'ring from the stocks
They seize, they bind, they circumcise C------s F------."

'Heroic Epistles'. Written Summer 1772. "The Chiefs of the Maccaronis became known beyond the limits of their fantastic Dominion by their excessive Gaming." Mason's 'Satirical Poems', ed. P. Toynbee, 1926, p. 70. See also BMSat 5010.
N° 6. Bust-portrait of an elderly man. He is "Sir Gibby", one of the Scots who "preside in our cabinets and lead kings as they list". Sir Gilbert Elliot (1722-77), Treasurer of the Navy 1770, and reputed a special confidant of George III. Cf. 'Corr. of George III', ed. Fortescue, i. 316. 1 September 1772


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Depicted people Representation of: Thomas Bradshaw
Date 1772
date QS:P571,+1772-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 173 millimetres
Width: 111 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.10017
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) Title taken from 'Directions to the Book-binder'. >From the 'London Magazine', xli. 360.

See Temi Odumosu, "Africans in English Caricature 1769-1819: Black Jokes, White Humour" (Harvey Miller) 2017, p. 67.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-10017
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