print; satirical print

Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: J,1.41
Title: Object: Scotch Paradice a View of the Bute full Garden of Eden borough
Description: Satire on Lord Bute and his political patronage. A view of a large garden with a tree at its centre at the top of which sits Bute holding two baskets of "golden pippins"; a devil with two serpentine legs sits on a low branch to right, excreting gold coins into the arms of a man with a fox's head (Henry Fox); to left, Princess Augusta climbs a ladder resting against the tree and reaches out to take an apple from the French ambassador, the duc de Nivernois, who sits beside the devil. Cumberland, wielding a large axe, is in the process of chopping down the tree saying "I'll cut you up root and branch". A group of Scots stand behind the tree waiting for fruits to fall, another stoops at the foot of the ladder to pick up an apple and glance up the princess's skirts; two prosperous gentlemen stand to the side holding baskets of fruit. A winged figure of Father Time flies towards the tree from the left while, on the right, a be-wigged devil (Mansfield) flies away squirting liquid from a clyster at a Charles Churchill who sits on the garden wall waving a stick; Temple and Newcastle climb over the wall into the garden and Pitt holding a flaming sword leaps down to attack a group of Scots. On the left of the scene, a cock standing on a dunghill is approached by a monkey (the Duke of Bedford, ambassador to Paris) carrying a paper lettered, "Articles of Agreement between John Bull & Lewis Gallus". Beyond, two further Scots carry off a bulging sack and the Union Flag. In the foreground, to left, is a barking British mastiff, and to right a sorrowful lion sits in shadow. Etching
Producer name: After: Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale; Published by: Edward Sumpter
School/style
Production date: 1763 (circa)
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 237 millimetres; Width: 300 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The tree not only refers to that in the Garden of Eden, but has formal echoes of earlier political satires, for instance, the "Royal Oake of Brittayne" (BM Satires 737) and England's Memorial (BM Satires 1186); for later echoes of the composition, see BM Satires 10744 and 11323. The print has been atrributed to Jefferyes Hammet O'Neale on the basis of the similarity of the long-nosed devils to those in his satirical prints.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; garden; tree/bush; scottish; dog; bribery/corruption
Associated names: Representation of: John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute; Representation of: Augusta, Princess of Wales; Representation of: Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland; Representation of: Louis Jules Barbon Mancini Mazarini, Duke of Nivernois; Representation of: Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland; Representation of: Charles Churchill; Representation of: Richard Grenville Temple, 2nd Earl Temple; Representation of: William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham; Representation of: Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle; Representation of: William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield; Representation of: John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford; Representation of: Devil; Representation of: Time
Associated places: Associated with: France
Associated events: Associated Event: Seven Years War 1756-1763
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1818
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: J,1.41

Free entry

Opening hours