Satire on alleged political corruption during the premiership of lord bute in six compartments each with a title, presumably reduced versions of ten larger prints (none which are in the british museum collection): "places of honour"; "places of profit" (sub-divided into four scenes, "a treasury board", "a pay office", "an admiralty board", and "gentlemen of his majestys band of pensioners"); "a safe place"; "a snug place"; "a miserable cold place"; "a warm place - hell". At top left, a group of disabled soldiers stand beside a road, another sits in the stocks labelled "a reward for past services", watched by a parish beadle, while a procession of carts with flags signifying british victories in the seven years war carries prisoners towards a gallows; a gentleman in a long wig presides over the treasury board consisting of five scots seated at a table covered with empty money bags, an empty chest liying on the floor; two sailors are turned away at the pay office while henry fox converses with venal politicians; lord sandwich, holding his cricket bat, presides over the admiralty board whose members are asleep in their chairs; seven recipients of government pensions present themselves, among them 'm. ', arthur murphy (?), 'orator s', tobias smollett, 'h', william hogarth at his easel wearing a fool's cap, his dog at his feet, 'p. W. ', paul whitehead, deputy wardrobe keeper to the king, standing beside a coat on a stand; wilkes is in a cell at the tower of london ("a safe place") holding a whip and the cap of liberty lettered "habeas corpus", guarded by a yeoman warder as he is attacked by four dogs and a lion chained to a pillar lettered "magna charta"; a couple (bute and princess augusta) are engaged in sexual intercourse in a curtained bed in a grand chamber ("a snug place"), their clothes littering the room and a dog sniffing at bute's breeches; a thin cook and two scullions in a miserably bare kitchen appeal to the niggardly lord talbot, lord steward of the household, the north wind blows on them and a desperate clergyman prays while a dog begs from a scotsman who is eating from a bowl and rats attack talbot; the devil drives bute, fox, mansfield and three other men into the gaping jaws of hell. Etching and engraving. Date: circa 1763. Dimensions: Height: 241 mm (trimmed?); Width: 378 mm (trimmed?). Medium: paper. Depicted People: Bamber Gascoyne. Collection: British Museum. The Places (being a Sequel to the Posts) a Political Pasquinade (BM 1868,0808.4321)
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