print;
satirical print;
puzzle-picture
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.4306
- Title
- Object: An Hieroglyphic Epistle from [Lord Bute] to [Beelzebub] in Answer to that lately receiv'd from Pandemonium
- Description
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A rebus letter headed by a representation of the head and shoulders of Bute taken from Ramsay's portrait (not caricatured) and the Devil with a fork for a foot who holds the letter described under BM Satires 4012 to which this is a reply. The present letter, transliterated in a broad Scots accent, states that although Bute has officially resigned he intends to remain in power behind the throne and to ensure that his Scottish friends will find good "posts and places" in order to "reduce the English into total subjection"; he refers to Princess Augusta as "a certain bonny Lassie". 1763
Etching and rocker-work
- Production date
- 1763 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 226 millimetres (image)
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Height: 292 millimetres
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Width: 283 millimetres (image)
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Width: 188 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The print is a response to BM Satires 4012, see 1868,0808.4292
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.4306