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The thistle reel
Description
English: Three men dance round a tall thistle. The stem of the thistle is decorated with a Garter ribbon inscribed "Honi soit qui Mal y pense"; its flower is surrounded by a glory of light from which issue rays terminating in a circle of black clouds; over it are the words "Carduus benedictus". Among the clouds (r.) is seated the Devil playing the bagpipes. The dancers are (l. to right.): Bute in court dress wearing the Garter ribbon, &c, and pointing with one hand to the thistle, with the other to a scroll on the ground inscribed "Noli me tangere". North, smiling, looks at the thistle through a lorgnette. Lord Mansfield in judge's wig and gown holds the Quebec Bill, while by his feet is a scroll inscribed "Nemo me impune lacessit" (the motto of the Order of the Thistle). The text explains this as "a vision" seen in the Court Yard of St. James's Palace "after a long argument at the Cocoa with the putrid Jacobites of that club". The "boreal triumvirate dance to the tune of "Over the water to Charley" but flee at the appearance of a ghastly bleeding figure . . . the injured Ghost of poor America", who asserts "that her country would ruin ours, and France and Spain would profit by the downfall of both". The guard rush out yelling "a civil war, a civil war!" 1 March 1775
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Depicted people Representation of: William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Date 1775
date QS:P571,+1775-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 179 millimetres
Width: 120 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.10071
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) >From the 'London Magazine', xliv. 56. The Government's policy to America is generally attacked in these satires as inspired by Bute and Scottish influence, see BMSat 5289, &c, a favourite theme also in America. Here the Quebec Bill is singled out for especial condemnation, see BMSat 5228, 5286, &c. For the Cocoa Tree, a Tory club whose origin was a chocolate house formerly a resort of

Jacobites, see Gibbon, 'Misc. Works', 1814, i. 154.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-10071
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