Original file (2,134 × 1,484 pixels, file size: 1.22 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
 | This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. |
Summary
A view of the deluge of Scotch paper currency for English gold
(   ) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title |
A view of the deluge of Scotch paper currency for English gold |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: A Scotsman in the air astride a broom is carrying off six large money-bags, three being inscribed "£2,000", "£10,000", and "£50,000". He scatters banknotes or bills; men on the ground, some sinking into a bog. exclaim in horror at his action. In the centre Britannia is seated, she says: "This Scotch paper diet has brought me to a consumption". In the foreground (r.) Lord North seated, his back to the other figures, writes on a paper inscribed: "Scheme for paying off the National Debt"; he says: "I will not at present promise to pay 17 Millions in ten Years". The scene is the sea-shore; three Scotsmen (l.) row out to sea in a boat loaded with money-bags, saying: "We'll over the Water to Charly". The Scotsman on the broom, who resembles caricatures of Bute, says: "The deel away wi ye all ye English Pudding-bags ken ye nae that Paper is lighter of digestion than Gold". A man sinking in a bog-hole says: "Oh I am Sunk for ever". Another, covering his face, says: "Let me hide my Face, how can I now shew my self to my Creditors". 1 August 1772
Etching |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Depicted people | Representation of: John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1772 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current location |
Prints and Drawings |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accession number |
1855,0609.1955 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) >From the 'Oxford Magazine', vs.. 1. A financial crisis in 1772, following the collapse of a speculative mania in Scotland, largely due to the Ayr Bank (see 'Letters of Hume', 1932, ii. 263-4) was precipitated by the failure of Alexander Fordyce, a Scot, and the leading partner in an important London bank, see BMSat 5016. There was a panic in the City, and the clamour against the Scots was revived. Walpole, 'Last Journals', 1920, i. 117 f. See BMSat 4947. North in his budget speech of 1 May 1772 estimated that if peace continued for ten years, the National Debt would be reduced by £17,000,000. 'Parl. Hist.', xvii. 489. See also BMSat 4969. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1855-0609-1955 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing
This image is in the public domain because it is a mere mechanical scan or photocopy of a public domain original, or – from the available evidence – is so similar to such a scan or photocopy that no copyright protection can be expected to arise. The original itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
This tag is designed for use where there may be a need to assert that any enhancements (eg brightness, contrast, colour-matching, sharpening) are in themselves insufficiently creative to generate a new copyright. It can be used where it is unknown whether any enhancements have been made, as well as when the enhancements are clear but insufficient. For known raw unenhanced scans you can use an appropriate {{PD-old}} tag instead. For usage, see Commons:When to use the PD-scan tag.  | ||||
_jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 04:41, 15 May 2020 | | 2,134 × 1,484 (1.22 MB) | Copyfraud | British Museum public domain uploads (Copyfraud/BM) Satirical prints in the British Museum 1772 #9,262/12,043 |
File usage
Global file usage
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on da.wikipedia.org
- Usage on es.wikipedia.org
- Usage on www.wikidata.org
.jpg){kind=link}