File:Britain's state pilot foundering on taxation rock to the great amusement of Lewis Baboon, Don Strut & Nic. Frog (BM J,1.78 1).jpg

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Britain's state pilot foundering on taxation rock to the great amusement of Lewis Baboon, Don Strut & Nic. Frog   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Britain's state pilot foundering on taxation rock to the great amusement of Lewis Baboon, Don Strut & Nic. Frog
Description
English: A bear, with the face, ribbon, and star of Lord North, negligently holds the tiller of a boat which is foundering and driving upon rocks (right). On the stem is a picture of Britannia seated with her spear and shield. On the top of the mast is a large thistle which is the centre of a broad streak of lightning and a black cloud; the sail is being blown from the boat. From the shore (left) two figures point with scorn at the wreck: Spain wearing a cloak and ruff, and with the face of some bird, and France, dressed in the French fashion with feathered hat and bag-wig, and with the legs and feet of an ape. On the edge of the water squats a large frog smoking a long pipe.


Beneath the design is engraved, in continuation of the title, "To the great Amusement of Lewis Baboon, Don Strut, & Nic Frog". 23 June 1779


Etching
Depicted people Representation of: Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford
Date 1779
date QS:P571,+1779-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 268 millimetres
Width: 335 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,1.78
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

The names engraved, in continuation of the title, refer to France, Spain, and Holland and are taken from Arbuthnot's celebrated pamphlet, 'Law is a Bottomless Pit; or the History of John Bull', 1712. A printed sheet [J,1.169] kept with the print explains "The hint of this print was borrowed from Gay's Fable of the Bear in a Boat". The fable is printed at length. North is thus "the self-deemed Machiavel at large" whose conceit and folly bring disaster. The names of the artists and the thistle indicate that disaster was planned by Bute and effected by Americans. For attacks on North's budgets see BMSat 5537, &c. One of many representations of the United Provinces as an unfriendly and complacent neutral, see BMSat 5557, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-1-78
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