The coach overturn'd, or, The fall of Mortimer [graphic].

Published/Created:
[London] :
[E. Sumpter],
[1763]
Physical Description:
1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 11.0 x 12.1 cm, on sheet 12 x 19 cm
Notes:
Title etched above image.
Publication date from that of the book in which this plate was published.
Two columns of verse below image: With raptures, Britannia take notice at last, proud Sawney's turn'd over by driving too fast ...
Plate numbered '31' in upper right corner.
Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's, [1763].
Abstract:
"Satire on the negotiations for the Peace of Paris. A lion and lioness (the King and Queen) look in alarm from the window of a coach (Great Britain) as it crashes against a large rock. Lord Bute, the driver, and Princess Augusta, who has been sitting beside him, fall headlong to the ground and the horses (bearing names connected with British actions in the Seven Years War: "Germany", "Guardeloup", "Pondechery", "America", "Martinico" and "Quebec") run off. Bute cries out, "De'el dam that Havanna Snuff its all most blinded me". The postilion, Henry Fox, lies on the ground having hit his head on a rock labelled "Newfound Land"; a speech balloon lettered "Snugg" emerges from his mouth. Behind him Pitt, holding a whip, grasps the leading horse's reins; the Marquis of Granby gallops up to assist him, together with William Beckford (who was shortly to become Lord Mayor of London) and the Duke of Newcastle. In the foreground is a conflict involving a number of journalists: Bute's supporters, Arthur Murphy and Tobias Smollett shoot their pistols at Pitt, and further to the right Charles Churchill, in clerical robes, fires a cannon labelled "North Briton" at them, causing another man to fall to the ground his arm resting on a copy of the Gazetteer (the fallen man must be either Charles Say, editor, or John Almon, contributor to the Gazetteer, an anti-Bute newspaper), with the headline, "A letter from Darlington" (a reference to Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington, a relation of Bute's by marriage). The British lion beside Churchill urinates on the Scottish thistle. Behind this group, the Duke of Cumberland runs forward anxiously mopping his bald head, having lost his wig. In the background are Lord Mansfield and the Earl of Loudon, the latter suggesting that they retreat (a reference to his failure to capture Louisbourg from the French in 1757). To the right a group of Scotsmen are driven off by two Englishmen with whips; another Scot sits on the ground scratching himself."--British Museum online catalogue.
Variant Titles:
Fall of Mortimer
Coach overturned
Topics:
Cannons.
Carriages & coaches.
Journalists.
National emblems--British.
National emblems--Scottish.
Newspapers.
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763--Great Britain.
Treaty of Paris--(1763)
Topics:
Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789.
Topics:
Augusta,--Princess of Wales,--1719-1772--Caricatures and cartoons.
Bute, John Stuart,--Earl of,--1713-1792--Caricatures and cartoons.
Charlotte,--consort of George III, King of Great Britain,--1744-1818--Caricatures and cartoons.
Churchill, Charles,--1731-1764--Caricatures and cartoons.
Cumberland, William Augustus,--Duke of,--1721-1765--Caricatures and cartoons.
George--III,--King of Great Britain,--1738-1820--Caricatures and cartoons.
Granby, John Manners,--Marquis of,--1721-1770--Caricatures and cartoons.
Hogarth, William,--1697-1764--Caricatures and cartoons.
Holland, Henry Fox,--Baron,--1705-1774--Caricatures and cartoons.
Mansfield, William Murray,--Earl of,--1705-1793--Caricatures and cartoons.
Mortimer, Roger de,--Earl of March,--1287?-1330.
Murphy, Arthur,--1727-1805--Caricatures and cartoons.
Pitt, William,--Earl of Chatham,--1708-1778--Caricatures and cartoons.
Smollett, T.--(Tobias),--1721-1771--Caricatures and cartoons.
Sumpter, Edward, fl. 1763-1787, publisher.
Language:
English
Genre:
Book illustrations--England--1763.
Etchings--England--London--1762.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1762.
Format:
Image
Rights:
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Call Number:
762.00.00.30
Orbis Record:
8520956
Yale Collection:
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings
Digital Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Local Record Number:
lwlpr30978
Citation:
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 3967
OID:
15949964
PID:
digcoll:2794856