File:A sett of blocks for Hogarth's wigs (BM 1868,0808.4228 2).jpg
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[edit]A sett of blocks for Hogarth's wigs ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Title |
A sett of blocks for Hogarth's wigs |
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Description |
English: Satire on Lord Bute and his government, and on William Hogarth; for references within the print, see Curator's Comment.
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Depicted people | Representation of: William Hogarth | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
between 1762 and 1763 date QS:P571,+1762-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1762-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1763-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.4228 |
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Notes |
The print appears to date from late October 1762 when peace negotiations were taking place: there is a reference to the North Briton, No.XIX, which was published on 9 October 1762, but apparently the fate of Havana had not yet been settled. Peace preliminaries were signed on 3 November and the treaty was signed on 10 February 1763. The following notes are intended to explain some of the references within the print. The title is an allusion to Hogarth's print, 'The five orders of perriwigs' (Paulson 1989, 209). The Seven Years' War was largely funded from the Land Tax. The Duke of Bedford and other landowners were seen to want peace in order to reduce their taxes at the expense of the merchant classes who hoped to benefit from trading opportunities opened up by military campaigns. Bedford was said to have been horsewhipped by Jacobite supporters in August 1747 at the Lichfield hunt (see BM Satires 2865). Charles Townshend was Secretary at War from March 1761. He quarrelled frequently with Bute and eventually resigned in December 1762 although still supporting the Peace. He was notoriously unreliable; Richard Rigby (Bedford's intermediary with Bute during the negotiations) described him as 'that splendid shuttlecock, veers about with all these different gales. He laughs at the ministry at night and assures them in the morning that he is entirely theirs' (quoted in ODNB) The Cocoa Tree coffee-house in Pall Mall was used as a tory meeting place from the 1720s to 1770s; by the date of this print it was seen as the party's unofficial headquarters (see Linda J Colley, "The Loyal Brotherhood and the Cocoa Tree: The London Organization of the Tory Party, 1727-1760", The Historical Journal, Vol. 20, No. 1, March, 1977, pp. 77-95). The North Briton, No, XIX, 9 October 1762, contained a response, said to be by William Temple, to the Briton of 11 September 1762: "Ye worthy citizens of London, see! a foul-mouthed ruffian ... with the infernal rage of a fiend broke loose from the regions of darkness, attack your favourite goddess Liberty on her throne ... squirt his venomous excrements in her face ... and at last ... rush forward to plunge a dagger in her heart!" The journalist James Ralph was a supporter of Bute who received a government pension on the accession of George III and so, like Hogarth (who received an income as Sergeant Painter to the King), was open to vicious attack from Bute's opponents. Bute was said to have hired pugilists and butchers to protect him on the route to the Lord Mayor of London's banquet in 1761; 'whifflers' were armed attendants traditionally employed to clear the way for public processions. Havana had been captured by the British in August 1762; the terms of the Peace returned Cuba to Spain while Florida became a British colony. Hogarth's print "The Times, Plate 1" was published on 7 September 1762. An earlier spate of satires criticising Hogarth had resulted from his opposition to plans for the establishment of the Royal Academy and the publication of his "Analysis of Beauty" in 1753. Both Charles Townshend (see above) and George Montagu Dunk, Earl of Halifax, were members of Bute's government; as secretary of state for the north Halifax issued the general warrant for the arrest of the author, printer, and publishers of the North Briton, No.45 (23 April 1763), in which Wilkes had attacked the king's speech commending the treaty of Paris. If the print appeared after this date, then the block from which the inkpot and quill are suspended may be intended to represent Halifax as signatory of the warrant. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4228 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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