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The botching taylor cutting his cloth to cover a button
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English: The interior of a tailor's workroom. George III sits cross-legged on the table or tailor's shop-board, a strip of material across his knees, which he is about to cut with his shears. Part of the cloth is inscribed "Ireland", part "Great Britain", a very small piece is "Hanover". Beside the king (r.) sits Bute in Highland dress, his right. arm is round the king's shoulders, and he points to the cloth, directing the king, who looks towards him with an expression of distress, to cut it between "Ireland" and "Great Britain"; on the table between them is a button. Lord North (l.) stands on the king's r.; in his right. hand is a length of cloth which has already been cut off, inscribed "North America"; pieces inscribed "West Indies" and "Africa" lie on the ground at his feet. In his left hand he clutches the piece inscribed "Ireland" which the king is about to cut off. Behind and between North and the king stands Mansfield, wearing judge's robes, with a dismayed expression. His r. hand is on North's r. shoulder, his left. clasps the hand which Bute has placed on the king's r. shoulder. Behind North (l.) stand two men. One (Sandwich) holds a document inscribed, "A Scheme for ruining the Navy"; the other is probably Germain.


Behind the table (r.) the Pope, wearing his triple crown, embraces a Scotsman, wearing a kilt and a bonnet with a white cockade, a powder horn and flask hanging from his waist, who is evidently Charles Edward the Pretender; they watch the king with intense interest. Beneath the table lie strips of cloth inscribed, "Bill of Rights" (torn), "Magna Charta" (frayed), "Memorials", "Pe[ti]tions", "Intelligence", "Expresses", "Memorials", "Remonstrances", "Dispatches", "Petition from Jamaica", "Account of the distress'd situation of Ireland". The shadow under the table over the pieces of cloth is inscribed "Taylors Hell."
On the wall are hung broadsides, a tailor's goose, a picture, and, spiked on a file, a large bunch of papers labelled "Addresses". The broadsides (l. to right.) are [1] 'The Highland Laddie, a favourite Court Air, proper to be Sung in all Churches'. At the bottom is a jack-boot in a circle, the familiar emblem for Bute, see BMSat 3860 (1762), &c. [2] 'Dr Cromwell's effectual and only remedy for the Kings-evil'. This is headed by two crossed axes in a circle, a gibe which verges on treason. [3] 'The Button-Maker's Downfall or Ruin to Old England to the tune of Britons strike Home'. George III was much ridiculed c. 1770 for indulging in the hobby of button-making, see BMSat 4380 (1770), 4417 (1771), 4883, 5711, and p. 494. [4] 'Taxation No Tyranny A New Song as Sung at the Theatre Royal the Words by Jocky Stewart', an allusion in general to the supposed arbitrary policy instigated by Bute, and in particular to Dr. Johnson's famous pamphlet. The picture is entitled 'Flight into Egypt'. The king, astride an ass, holds before him an infant (round whose head is a halo); the Queen sits behind him. Behind walks a procession of the royal children, little girls and youths. A sign-post points "to Hanover". This satire illustrates the persistent belief in the influence of Bute.[In 1778 there had been a recrudescence of the attacks on Bute, owing to an attempt by Sir James Wright and Dr. Addington, Chatham's physician, to bring about an alliance between Bute and Chatham. Bute re-asserted his determination to take no part in political affairs. He wrote to his son, Nov. 1778, "The policy of . Sir James Wright has, as you will see in the Papers, opened the mouth of Hydra malice and venom against me afresh. . . ." 'A Prime Minister and his Son', ed. the Hon. Mrs. Stuart Wortley, 1935, pp. 122, 141. See also von Ruville, 'Chatham', iii, p.333.] For Ireland see BMSat 5572, &c. 27 December 1779


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Depicted people Representation of: John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
Date 1779
date QS:P571,+1779-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 276 millimetres
Width: 298 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,1.80
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) The drawing is skilful and expressive and resembles in manner that of BMSat 5540, 5577. The signature and publisher's name are probably fictitious. ..................................................................................

An impression in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, has additional mezzotint (Call No. 779.12.27.01+ )
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-1-80
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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