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The Scots Triumph, or A Peep Behind the Curtain
Description
English: Satire on the reaction of the London crowd to Wilkes's imprisonment in April 1768. Wilkes rides past St Paul's Cathedral in an open carriage drawn by a crowd of men carrying a Union flag lettered, "Wilkes & Liberty", among them are two sailors; one man cries "I'll be d[am]n'd if they take him to Prison. We'll stand by him to the last", another, "No Boot, down with the Scotch. Wilkes for ever". Wilkes says that he is "willing to submit to the Law of my Country"; two court officials in the carriage are anxious, but Wilkes's supporter John Horne (Tooke), dressed in clerical robes, reassures them that "the friends of Mr Wilkes aim at higher revenge" (i.e., at the government). The mob has written the number "45" numerous times on the side of the carriage; its wheel crushes a thistle growing in the road. Three men follow the carriage: the Marquis of Granby, without a wig, saying "A good General is never disheartened at the loss of one Battle", Earl Temple and another, both of whom express their support for Wilkes. On the right, revealed by curtains hanging from a colonnade, stand Wilkes's opponents: the devil, with a plaid, addressing Lord Bute who believes that "things gang on swimmingly", Princess Augusta delighted by "our Success", the king anxiously concealing his forebodings, and Mansfield aware of Wilkes's popularity, "I Judg'd this, He's the Idol of the Mob". In the background, the ghost of the Earl of Egremont appears, "now doom'd to suffer eternal Punishment" for signing the General Warrant resulting in the arrest of Wilkes in 1763 (Egremont died shortly afterwards). Three ministers react with alarm: Lord Halifax, who also signed the Warrant, Henry Fox, trusting that Wilkes is safely "in a Trap", and Lord Sandwich who doubts "whether we shall be able to keep him there". In the foreground, lie a half-naked woman with three naked children (identified by Stephens as Liberty) and a grieving Britannia; Fame flies overhead carrying a scroll lettered, "No. 45"; in the top left-hand corner, the sun smiles behind the shadow of the moon, "Liberty Eclips'd". Etched verses beneath in four columns describe the scene celebrating "the true Sons of Liberty ... /Yet woe to fair Freedom her foes are in Sight/ .. Boot, M[an]sf[ie]ld, and H[a]ll[if]ax, seeking her fall/Fox, Twitcher, a Ghost, and the Devil and all;/That Child [the king] & his Mother, assist in the Plan.." 20 May 1768
Etching
Depicted people Representation of: John Wilkes
Date 1768
date QS:P571,+1768-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 190 millimetres (image)
Height: 224 millimetres (trimmed?)
Width: 313 millimetres (image)
Width: 322 millimetres (trimmed?)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4403
Notes

Wilkes was freed after appearing voluntarily before the Court of King's Bench on 20 April 1768, but committed himself to prison a week later only to be freed by the mob, and subsequently commiting himself again.

Stephens suggests that this may be the print advertised in the Public Advertiser, 13 June 1768: "To the Connoisseurs. This Day is published, By T. Gandon and Co. at No.11, near the Bull and Garter, Fleet-Market. A Satirical Scratch, in the Stile of Rembrandt, entitled The Scotch Triumph; with the Representation of their amazing Exploits in St. George's Fields; the Murder of the Innocent, and the Sacrifice of Liberty, by Moloch; with some curious Anecdotes, at One Shilling each."
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4403
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