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The state cotillon 1773   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The state cotillon 1773
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English: The interior of a panelled room: ten men holding hands dance in a circle to the tune of a bag-pipe played by Bute (l.) wearing a kilt and appearing from behind a curtain. The king watches with pleased amusement from behind a door (r.). The dancers are trampling on papers and state documents.


Lord North, trampling on papers inscribed "National Debt" and "Grievances", is between Lord Bathurst in his Chancellor's robes but wearing a hat, and Lord Barrington in a military coat under whose feet are "Dispatches from War Office"; under Bathurst's foot is a paper, "Appeals, Decrees". Next him (r.) is a youthful-looking minister stepping on a paper inscribed "French Grammar" to show that he is Suffolk, Secretary of State, pilloried for his ignorance of French, see BMSat 4875, 4876. His neighbour is only partly visible. Next comes a military officer trampling on a paper inscribed "Middlesex Election" to show that he is Colonel Luttrell. On Luttrell's r., and the central figure of the design, is Lord Mansfield wearing tartan stockings to show that he is a Scot and dancing upon "Magna Charta". On his right. is an unidentified figure, then a minister treading on papers inscribed "Whitfield Hymns" to show (not very consistently) that he is Lord Dartmouth, whose strong attachment to the Methodists earned the nickname of the Psalm-singer. He had succeeded Hillsborough as Secretary of State for the Colonies on 14 Aug. 1772. Between him and Barrington stands Sandwich, wearing a sailor's trousers and standing on "The Petition of the Navy Captains". Bute stands on a paper "To Miss Vansittar[t]". Other papers on the ground are "The Remonstr[ance of the City]" and "Petition of the East India Comp". February 1773


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Depicted people Representation of: William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington
Date 1773
date QS:P571,+1773-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 121 millimetres
Width: 182 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1855,0609.1945
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) >From the 'Westminster Magazine', i. 149. The captains of the Navy had petitioned to the House of Commons for an addition to their half pay 9 Feb. 1773. 'Parl. Hist.' xvii. 705-22. The request was approved by parliament, but opposed by North and the King. 'Corr. of George III', ed. Fortescue, ii. 447, 451. At this time the latest City Remonstrance was that of 24 June 1771, that of 1773 was not decided on till 11 March 1773, nor presented to the King till 26 March. Sharpe, 'London and the Kingdom', iii. 135-6. The petition of the East India Company appears to be that of 14 Dec. 1772, against the Bill to restrain the Company from appointing supervisors for India, see 'Parl. Hist.' xvii. 646 ff.; see also BMSat 4968, 5102. The plate illustrates "A vision" of a full Council of the Ministry in the Cockpit (the Treasury) at which, on the sound of bagpipes, the ministers seized the papers on the table, scattered them on the floor, and "danced upon them with a furious glee." It appears that the two unidentified dancers are Viscount Townshend (appointed Master General of the Ordnance, 17 Oct. 1772) and Jeremiah Dyson or 'Mungo'.

Reproduced, Chase, 'The Beginnings of the American Revolution', 1911, i, p.350.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1855-0609-1945
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