print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.4305
- Title
- Object: The Proclamation of Proclamations or the most glorious and memorable Peace that ever was proclaimed in this or any other Metropolis thoughout the World
- Description
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Satire on the Peace of Paris, March 1763. A procession of heralds followed by mounted cavalry proclaims the Peace.The king-at-arms, or chief herald, rides a horse with ass's ears and long spikes emerging from its hoofs; he wears a grotesque wig, a tabard decorated with crescent moons, and a large boot signifying his allegiance to Lord Bute; the other heralds wear similar tabards and one carries a mace. The procession is greeted by Earl Talbot, Lord Steward of the Household (see BM Satires 3989), on horseback. In the foreground is a crowd typical of the London streets: two quarrelsome sailors, one with a wooden leg, harrassing a Scotsman identified by his Scotch bonnet who boasts that under Bute he will soon become a Commissioner of Excise; two bald-headed pugilists, one of whom is called "Nailor" (they are a reminder of the butchers and pugilists whom Bute employed for protection on his way to the Lord Mayor's banquet in 1761); a group of elegantly-dressed men, identified by Stephens as Bute accompanied by Spaniards and Frenchmen, at whom a dog barks; a cobbler complaining at the terms of the Peace; an apple-woman lamenting the excise on cider (March 1763) while a boy steals an apple from her table; a clergyman, George Whitefield, preaching in favour of peace, while a man beside him hopes for "t'other touch with the French Bougres [heretics]". Above flies a parody of Fame blowing a trumpet and reaching out with an olive branch; she has a long nose, devil's wings and tail, wears stays, has a wooden right leg and a large boot on her left leg. Verses below refer to Bute's resignation from office in April 1763. 1763
Etching
- Production date
- 1763 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 188 millimetres (image)
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Height: 237 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 299 millimetres (image)
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Width: 307 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The print was advertised in the Public Advertiser on 13 April 1763, at the foot of "Ayliffe's Ghost" (BM Satires 4038), "Macbeth and the Doctor (BM Satures 4040), and "Jockey Elliot and his Hobby Horse" (BM Satires 4047); the price is given as 6d.
The facial types and the long-nosed devil are typical of the satirical style of Jeffryes Hamett O'Neale and the print has been attributed to him on stylistic grounds.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Seven Years War 1756 - 1763
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.4305
