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The Laird of the Boot, or Needs must when the De'el drives
Description
English: Satire on the influence of Lord Bute on the young George III, showing the king and queen, as a lion and lionness, in a coach decorated with thistles, driven at speed by Princess Augusta with Bute at her feet whipping on the horses and throwing out coins; Britannia has fallen and is about to be run over by the coach. Henry Fox rides postillion, asking for instructions from Bute who replies that the route is "through [the Princess of] Wales". A Scots footman warns that William Pitt is following; Pitt and Newcastle gallop after the coach while Cumberland has been thrown from the "H[anove]r" horse". Lord Mansfield and another Scottish peer (identified in the verses below as "Jockey Americanus") ride beside the coach "to guard 'em along". A group of Scotsmen in the foreground cheeer Bute on. Etched title and three columns of verse below.
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Depicted people Representation of: George III, King of the United Kingdom
Date 1762
date QS:P571,+1762-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 187 millimetres
Width: 302 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4246
Notes

This print was advertised on "The Posts" (BM Satires 3944), 7 September 1762: "... J. Williams Bookseller next the Mitre Tavern Fleet Street, of whom may be had the Asses of G-t Bri-n the Laird of the Boot - Without & Within & the fall of Mortimer'; and on "The Rum Letter ..." (BM Satires 3901) also by J. Williams.

On the verso is a pencil sketch of a man with a caricaturical large head and bowler hat.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4246
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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