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The Allies - par nobile fratrum
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English: George III sharing a cannibal feast with an Indian chief. Under a palm-tree (left) are three American Indians; one, standing, holds the dismembered body of an infant, so that its blood pours into a cup formed of a skull held by a kneeling Indian (left). The third (right), whose feathers and bracelets show that he is a chief, sits on the ground holding a tomahawk in one hand, a long bone which he is gnawing in the other. On his left, and in the centre of the design, sits George III on the ground, gnawing the other end of the Indian's bone, while he holds a smoking bowl made of a skull. He is wearing the ribbon and star of the Garter. On the ground in front are the head and limbs of an infant, and a dog vomiting. On the king's left is a flag-staff, surmounted by a cross, from it hangs a ragged flag on which is inscribed "GEO . . . E the T[hird] by the Grace of. . . . of. . . . King [Def]ender of the Faith &c.” Beneath it, a 'Holy Bible' stands upside down.


Two figures hasten towards the feast from the right. A very fat bishop wearing a mitre holds in his right hand a crozier, in the left a paper inscribed “Form of Prayer 4th Febry General Fast.” He is saying “That thy Ways may be known upon Earth, thy saving Health among all Nations.” Behind him is a sailor carrying on his head a packing-case inscribed “Scalping Knives, Crucifixes, Tomahawks, Presents to Indians 96,000”; he says, “D------n my dear Eyes, but we are hellish good Christians.” Beneath the design is engraved, “Qui facit per alium, facit per se. Princ. Leg. Ang.” In the upper right corner of the print is engraved on a scroll, “The Party of Savages [The original here adds “under Le Mote”] went out with Orders not to spare Man, Woman, or Child. To this cruel Mandate even some of the Savages made an Objection, respecting the butchering the Women & Children; but they were told the Children would make Soldiers, & the Women would keep up the Stock. Remembrancer, Vol. 8. p. 77”. 3 February 1780


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Depicted people Representation of: George III, King of the United Kingdom
Date 1780
date QS:P571,+1780-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 233 millimetres
Width: 362 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4645
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) For the title cf. 'A Merry Song about Murder' (on George III), quoted from the 'London Courant', 25 Mar. 1780, by Walpole as an instance of the horrid length to which "party will carry men". 'Last Journals', 1910, ii. 264. The quotation, in the upper right corner, from 'A Narrative of the capture and treatment of John Dodge, by the English at Detroit', printed in Almon's propagandist annual publication, 1779. (It is an extract from 'The Narrative . . .' written by Dodge and published at Philadelphia in 1779. M. C. Tyler, ‘The Literary History of the American Revolution’.) The print appears to derive also from Burke's speech on 6 Feb. 1778 when Barré said “with many invectives against the Bishops, that it ought to be posted up in every church under their proclamation for the fast. . .”. Walpole, ‘Last Journals’, ii. 105. ‘Ann. Reg.’ 1778, p. 110. ‘Parl. Hist.’ xix. 594 ff. In the Declaration of Independence the king was accused of having “endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages... .” Franklin's faked ‘Supplement to the Boston Independent Chronicle’ printed at his private press at Passy (1782) published letters purporting to be from Indians and British officers, which accompanied bundles of scalps of men, women, and children to be sent to George III in expectation of reward. In the same paper was a letter by Franklin purporting to be from Paul Jones (1781) to Sir Joseph Yorke in which the king is accused (inter alia) of engaging “savages to murder their [his people's] defenceless farmers, women and children”. L. S. Livingston, ‘Franklin and his Press at Passy’, New York, Grolier Club, 1914, pp. 58 ff. For Indian atrocities see also BMSat 5470, &c. The bishop is probably Markham, archbishop of York, see BMSat 5400, &c.

Reproduced, S. G. Fisher, ‘True History of the American Revolution’, 1902, p. 380.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4645
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