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The Difference between Now and Then   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The Difference between Now and Then
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English: A broadside satire contrasting Pitt's attitude to peace negotiations with Bute's. On the left, under a heading "Time was!", Pitt (who resigned as Secretary of State in October 1761) complains "... During my Continuance [in office] our Successes brought us into universal Esteem: and Since my Absence how much Degenerated!"; papers on the table refer to the "family Compact" between France and Spain, to the importance of the fishing rights on the Newfoundland Banks, his determination that "No Places we have Conquer'd shall be Given up", and demands for the restitution of the Antigallican, a British privateer impounded by the Spanish; a bundle of notes is lettered "No Plem[i]naries". On the right, under a heading, "Time is!" Bute balances precariously with one foot on the top of an obelisk, a dagger dangling above his head, one leg is clothed in tartan; in his hands he holds papers lettered, "Advantageous Articles For the French King" and "Mu friends and Countrymen [i.e., the Scots] things being as they are rest Satisfied"; an all-seeing eye looks on from the top right hand corner. Four obsequious Scotsmen kneel on the ground at left while a group of soldiers and sailors on the right call to him, "D[am]n your Civility whers Newfound Land". Letterpress verses in two columns below, with one vertical segment of type ornament. ([London, Ewart: 1762])
Depicted people Representation of: John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
Date 1762
date QS:P571,+1762-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 161 millimetres (etching)
Height: 286 millimetres (printed area)
Width: 287 millimetres (etching)
Width: 287 millimetres (printed area)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4277
Notes The Treaty of Paris, February 1763, allowed French fishing on the banks of Newfoundland.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4277
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