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The Congress; or, a Device to lower the Land-Tax.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The Congress; or, a Device to lower the Land-Tax.
Description
English: A broadside satirising the Bute administration's overtures for peace with France, suggesting that the Duke of Bedford, the chief peace negotiator, was motivated by personal interest in escaping paying the Land Tax that supported the war; the further implication is that retaining "Barren Canada" and "Part of Newfoundland" is a poor bargain for the return of "Guadalupe Martinico &c &c" to the French. Bute is shown offering a scroll to two Frenchmen who are holding on a chain the British lion from whose mane hang the "Auditor" and the "Briton", two Bute-supporting newspapers; above Bute's head another Scot holds the "Standard of England" (the last word crossed through) which consists of Princess Augusta's petticoat and Bute's boot; on the left is the tomb of "English Glory Obit 1762". With letterpress title and verses of a song in two columns. (London: 1762)
Depicted people Representation of: John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
Date 1762
date QS:P571,+1762-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 190 millimetres (etching)
Height: 363 millimetres (printed area)
Width: 192 millimetres (etching)
Width: 192 millimetres (printed area)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1855,0414.303
Notes The preliminary articles of the peace treaty were signed 3 November 1762 and the peace was concluded on 10 February 1763.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1855-0414-303
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