File:The last Shift (BM 1868,0808.13253).jpg
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Title |
The last Shift |
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Description |
English: Satire on the Stamp Tax introduced for America in March 1765 showing an English officer threatening a group of Americans with two pistols crying "Stand and deliver"; in the background Lord Bute addresses the king, taking credit for the tax, "we'll have plenty" to which the king replies, "Necessity Pinches me, Money we must have."
Etching and engraving |
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Depicted people | Representation of: John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
circa 1765 date QS:P571,+1765-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Current location |
Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.13253 |
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Notes | Bute had resigned office before the introduction of the Stamp Act but he was seen as a secret influence on politics for many years. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-13253 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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Annotations InfoField | This image is annotated: View the annotations at Commons |
British officer aims pistols at Americans, saying "Stand and deliver," referring to the taxes imposed by the Stamp Act imposed on the American colonies in 1765.
Americans say, "We are all Americans."
Lord Bute (John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute) addresses the king in the background, saying "We'll have plenty," taking credit for the tax imposed by the Stamp Act.
King George III says to Lord Bute, "Necessity Pinches me, Money we must have."
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Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
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Image width | 1,287 px |
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Color space | sRGB |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 (20060914.r.77) Windows |
Date and time of digitizing | 14:21, 11 January 2008 |
File change date and time | 14:22, 11 January 2008 |
Date metadata was last modified | 14:22, 11 January 2008 |