The ever-memorable peace-makers settling their accounts – Historic Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with The ever-memorable peace-makers settling their accounts, an antique engraving rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The ever-memorable peace-makers settling their accounts
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The title names the three men in the picture, and the joke is that these "peace-makers" are settling their accounts with the Devil. The caricature targets the Earl of Bute, the Duke of Bedford and Henry Fox, Lord Holland, who were tied to the 1763 Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years' War. Fox, as paymaster, was widely accused of profiting from wartime spending, so the image plays on the idea that the settlement served private gain. Satires like this one, aimed at ministers suspected of corruption, helped shape the distrust of British government that grew in the colonies during the 1760s and 1770s.
| Created / published | [1769] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching and engraving. |
| Genre | Cartoons (Commentary) British 1760-1770.Intaglio prints British 1760-1770. |
| Notes | Title from item. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4300 Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 648. |
| Subjects | Bedford, John Russell,--Duke of,--1710-1771. Bute, John Stuart,--Earl of,--1713-1792. Holland, Henry Fox,--Baron,--1705-1774. Politics & government--England--1760-1770. Corruption--England--1760-1770. Devil--1760-1770. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,032 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-122573 |
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