print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1868,0808.4386
Title: Object: The New Country Dance as Danced at C- July the 30th 1766
Description: Satire on the end of Lord Rockingham's administration shown as a dance at court. The verses below describe the protagonists who have been numbered in pen and ink: in the centre, Princess Augusta (1) dances with Lord Bute (2) their joined hands holding a leading string attached to Pitt (3) with a gouty leg who leans on his crutch, adorned with a coronet, as he converses with America, a half naked native American woman holding a bottle of rum. To the left of the Princess, stand Charles Townshend (4), holding a weathercock, beside his partner Britannia standing on her head, her shield and spear fallen on the ground. Further left, Lord Northington (5) robed as Lord President of the Council holds a glass of wine towards his elaborately dressed young woman (6; identified by Stephens as Betty Careless, although she had died in 1752). On the right, Henry Fox (7) dances with the devil; behind him are a Frenchman saying he will not pay the Canada Bills recompensing Britain after the Seven Years' War, and a Spaniard saying he will not pay the Manilla Ransom, a sum of two million dollars offered to Britain by the governor of Manilla when the city was captured. At far left, the king (8) plays the fiddle accompanied by two Scottish bagpipers. Wilkes (9) flies above, a copy of his Essay on Woman in his pocket, bound for Paris on a broomstick with a witch who says she will take him anywhere but to Scotland; he defecates on the head of Lord Bute. In the foreground stand four politicians: Temple (10) saying that he will get Francis Hayman to paint the scene for his garden at Stowe; Newcastle (11) wearing spectacles; Rockingham (12) wearing boots and carrying a riding whip; Winchilsea (13). Verses below in six columns, each with the chorus, "Doodle doodle doo". Etching
Producer name: After: Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale (?)
School/style: British
Production date: 1766
Materials: paper
Technique: etching
Dimensions: Height: 238 millimetres (trimmed?); Width: 325 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Curator's comments: The devil seems to have been inspired by the work of Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale and other facial types echo those in prints designed by him.
Bibliographic references: BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (4147)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; scottish; dance; music; witch/wizard; politics; disabled; bodily function; drunkenness
Associated names: Representation of: Augusta, Princess of Wales; Representation of: John Wilkes; Associated with: Francis Hayman; Representation of: John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute; Representation of: William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham; Representation of: Devil; Representation of: Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland; Representation of: Charles Townshend; Representation of: Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington; Associated with: Betty Careless; Representation of: Britannia; Representation of: George III, King of the United Kingdom; Representation of: Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquis of Rockingham; Representation of: Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle; Representation of: Richard Grenville Temple, 2nd Earl Temple; Representation of: Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, 3rd Earl of Nottingham
Associated places: Associated with: France; Associated with: Spain; Associated with: North America
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Edward Hawkins (estate of)
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0808.4386

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