The seizure, or, Give the devil his due [graphic].
- Copyright Date:
- [ca. 1868?]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching with roulette on wove paper ; plate mark 22.6 x 38.0 cm, on sheet 59 x 43 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image, between the verses.
Design consists of two images, each with a caption title above.
Restrike, with final four lines of title burnished from plate. For original issue, published by J. Williams in 1763, see no. 4026 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?]
Eight lines of verse below each image; the verses on the left begin: With greater joy, his L- see, like Judas hanging on a tree ... - Abstract:
- "Two-part satire on the resignation of Lord Bute, April 1763. On the left is a scene of execution, headed "Excise", with Bute, identified by his plaid waistcoat, hanging from an apple tree (referring to the Cider Bill), a devil sitting on the branch above him wears a large boot (a pun on Bute) on one leg, the other ending in a claw; two men below exult. In the centre a man (evidently another representation of Bute as he wears a large boot on one leg and on the other leg wears a garter lettered "Honi ..." as in the scene on the right) lies across a fire while another pumps a pair of bellows to fan the flames; three farmers standing behind the fire and another to the right rejoice at Bute's downfall. On the right, another devil reciting the proverb, "Harm watch, Harm catch", one leg ending in a hammer, sits on top of a gallows from which hangs a fox (Henry Fox) wighted down by money bags tied around his neck. On the right is a scene set in a grand interior, headed "Resignation, in which Princess Augusta sprawls weeping in a chair her breasts partly exposed while a devil delves into Bute's breeches as he drags him through a door through which flames and smoke can be seen, the Duke of Cumberland brandishes a sword in his right hand and pushes Bute with his left; he is encouraged by a nephew, Edward, Duke of York, at lower right, a lusty goat, one of whose hands is a claw, looks on with pleasure."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Variant Titles:
- Give the devil his due
Excise
Resignation - Topics:
- Bellows.
Chairs.
Daggers & swords.
Devil.
Fire.
Foxes.
Gallows.
Goats.
Hangings (Executions)
Smoke.
Taxes. - Topics:
- Augusta,--Princess of Wales,--1719-1772--Caricatures and cartoons.
Bute, John Stuart,--Earl of,--1713-1792--Caricatures and cartoons.
Cumberland, William Augustus,--Duke of,--1721-1765--Caricatures and cartoons.
Field & Tuer, publisher.
Holland, Henry Fox,--Baron,--1705-1774--Caricatures and cartoons.
York, Edward Augustus,--Duke of,--1739-1767--Caricatures and cartoons. - Caption:
- leaf 32
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Engravings--England--London--1868.
Etchings--England--London--1868.
Restrikes.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1763. - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Call Number:
- 724 836C
Folio 724 836C (Oversize) - Orbis Record:
- 15543003
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr35400b
- OID:
- 17355924
- PID:
- digcoll:5262140
